Former lokayukta Santosh Hegde recently submitted his report to the government. The report referred a file noting of the commissioner (mines and geology department) in 2007, where he had mentioned Nayak's name.
Nayak , who claimed that he had killed 83 criminals in encounters in his police service, has been under Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) scanner in Sadik Jamal murder case in Gujarat. The police had killed Jamal in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat in 2003. It is alleged that Nayak had handed over Jamal to the Gujarat police to eliminate him . Two months ago, the Gujarat high court handed over the investigation to CBI . The Mumbai unit of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had arrested Nayak in a disproportionate assets case in 2006; he was released on bail later. Mumbai police then suspended him from service . The ACB has twice asked the director-general of police for permission to prosecute him in the case but both times it was denied. Nayak was expecting his reinstatement in the force but the recent development may put it on again off track.
Hegde, in his report on illegal mining in Karnataka, noted that a Mumbai-based controversial
businessman hatched the conspiracy and obtained permission for mining . The businessman submitted forged letters of ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), Government of India
to the Karnataka government claiming that the Centre had given his firm clearance for mining.
Nayak, along with the then Karnataka chief minister, H D Kumaraswamy, and the businessman friend, had put pressure on the bureaucrat to clear the mining files on the basis of the submitted letters, the report states. Kumaraswamy, according to the report, gave the bureaucrats a two-hours ultimatum to clear the files, following which the Karnataka government allowed the businessman mining rights. It was later found that one of the two letters submitted by the businessman was stolen.
Nayak's businessman friend is a Juhu resident and an accused in a cheating case. Six months ago, the Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai police went to arrest him a day before his son's wedding, when Nayak rushed for his rescue and used his influence to avoid the arrest
. The businessman's son recently married the daughter of a top bureaucrat at a posh Worli hotel.
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