New Delhi: A judge of the Karnataka high court on Monday, July 11 issued a written order saying that he received threats of transfer after intervening in a corruption case being investigated by the state police’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), news reports said.During a hearing on July 4, Justice H.P. Sandesh had orally said that he was indirectly threatened with transfer after his remark against the ACB that it had become a “collection centre,” Hindustan Times had reported.He had also said that the Additional DGP (ADGP) – the functioning head of the ACB – is a tainted officer.“Your ACB ADGP seems to be a powerful person. Somebody has told this to my colleague. I have been informed about it by a judge. The threat of transfer will be recorded in the order,” Justice Sandesh had said.According to the Indian Express, Justice Sandesh dictated a written order on July 11, reiterating his earlier statements, that a fellow judge had approached him with a hint of a warning on July 1 at the farewell dinner for the former chief justice of Karnataka (Ritu Raj Awasthi).The newspaper reported Justice Sandesh as saying, “a sitting judge” told him that “he had received a call from Delhi (name not disclosed)”.“The person from Delhi asked about me, he said. I told him that I am not affiliated to any party,” Justice Sandesh said. “He said the ADGP is from north India and he is powerful,” the high court judge said, adding that a reference was also made by the sitting judge to the transfer of another judge.The judge made these remarks while hearing a bail plea filed by an accused in a bribery case involving the office of the Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner.Two staff members of the office were arrested for receiving a bribe of Rs 5 lakh in exchange for favourable order in a land dispute.The high court had taken objection as to how senior officers were being protected and only junior staff were being prosecuted in the case.Justice Sandesh had said that the ACB had not been investigating the case in a proper manner and that the agency had become a “collection centre of bribes.”According to LiveLaw, the Karnataka ACB has moved the Supreme Court challenging the written order passed by Justice Sandesh.The case will be heard on July 12.