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2010-07-14 16:09:48 Nitte Santosh Hegde caused a stir when he quit as the Lokayukta, or Ombudsman, of  Karnataka in late June, over the state government’s inability to tackle the corrupt and powerful mining mafia. The uproar snowballed into a major national political issue when barely two weeks later, on July 3, he withdrew his resignation. [...]

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2010-06-23 23:54:28 Karnataka Lokayukta (ombudsman) Santosh Hegde, who resigned in frustration on Wednesday, expressed helplessness in protecting an honest officer from being suspended for exposing the disappearance of illegal iron ore seized by his team in March. “A cabinet minister wanted an officer to be suspended for having exposed attempts to export illegal iron ore [...]

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