New Delhi: A special court in Bengaluru dedicated to deciding criminal cases against legislators has ordered the attachment of 82 properties belonging to Karnataka MLA G. Janardhana Reddy and his wife Lakshmi Aruna on Monday, June 12.The court was hearing a petition filed by the CBI asking to attach their properties, alleging they had obtained them through the proceeds of illegally mining and exporting iron ore in 2009-10.While the CBI had petitioned to attach 118 properties belonging to Aruna Reddy, the court allowed it to attach only 77 as the remaining were obtained before she allegedly committed her offence.“She has acquired some of the properties prior to the date of offence i.e., 01.01.2009. Those properties cannot be attached and it cannot be said that those properties were acquired by [her] by means of offence alleged to have been committed during the period 01.01.2009 to 31.05.2010,” the court order read.Also Read: Choice of Either/Ore In Karnataka’s Ballari, ‘Everyone’s Hands Are Dirty’The court also noted that neither spouse had applied to pay it a security amount in lieu of having their properties attached since the day the CBI filed its petition.With 77 properties out of 82 belonging to Aruna Reddy, the remaining five properties attached belong to Janardhana Reddy. He was arrested in the illegal mining case in August 2011 and released on bail in January 2015, the Hindu reported.He is currently a member of the Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha party and is MLA from the Gangawati assembly constituency in Karnataka’s Koppala district.