day to 200–250 per day while Venkatachala was in tenure. He personally led hundreds of raids often lashing out at corruption in political life. In his four and a half years in office, he had looked into more than 50,000 cases of misconduct and complaints from members of the public. While purists questioned his model of raiding government officials without notices, he was lauded in equal measure for acting as a deterrent towards corruption. He even drew lot of criticism often from politicians who accused him of tarnishing all politicians with the same brush. He was discontinued as Lokayukta for the second term because of legal hurdles although a huge campaign was done in favor of him. Owing to his popularity he was featured in a Kannada film Lancha Samrajya as an officer fighting the corruption. Footnotes External links Karnataka Lokayukta 1930 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Indian judges Chief Justices of the Karnataka High Court Judges of the Karnataka High Court Justices of the Supreme Court of India Ombudsmen in India People from Kolar district University Law College, Bangalore University alumni University of Mysore alumni