Indian ex-minister arrested

Police in India's southern state of Karnataka yesterday arrested mining baron and former state minister G Janardhana Reddy over a massive mining scandal.
An ombudsman said in July that illegal iron-ore mining had cost the public exchequer $3.6 billion from 2006 to 2010 and recommended that the then chief minister of Karnataka state BS Yeddyurappa be prosecuted.
Reddy's arrest followed a pre-dawn swoop by detectives on his office and home searching for documents related to alleged bribery and illegal mining in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh.
Reddy was infrastructure development minister of Karnataka from 2008 to 2011 in the BJP state government headed by Yeddyurappa,