FIR against RTI activist who took Siddaramaiah to court in MUDA case

Siddaramaiah and 3 others were booked by the Lokayukta constabulary connected charges of corruption, cheating and forgery successful transportation with the allotment of 14 MUDA lodging sites to Siddaramaiah’s wife successful 2021. The grounds for the Lokayukta constabulary probe were acceptable arsenic backstage complainants Krishna, T J Abraham and Pradeep Kumar had obtained the governor’s approval, which, successful turn, was backed by the precocious court.

In the FIR, the pistillate accused Krishna and others of attacking her, pulling her clothes, verbally abusing her, and issuing decease threats portion she was returning from tribunal connected July 18, 2024. Her ailment besides states that Krishna, on with her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law, has been harassing her implicit a spot dispute.

This quality presently nether litigation reportedly involves claims implicit the decease benefits of the woman’s precocious husband, who passed distant successful 2020, and her jewellery. Krishna is listed arsenic the 4th accused successful the lawsuit and has been accused of assaulting her and making threatening remarks towards her and her mother.

The constabulary person filed the lawsuit nether sections 85 (Husband oregon comparative of hubby of a pistillate subjecting her to cruelty), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 74 (assault oregon transgression unit to pistillate with intent to outrage her modesty), 352 (individual intentionally insults different person), 351(2) (criminal intimidation), 79 (insult the modesty of a pistillate done words, gestures, sounds, oregon immoderate entity meant to beryllium heard oregon seen by the woman), and 3(5) (joint transgression liability erstwhile 2 oregon much individuals enactment with a communal intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

“This is an effort to suppress my combat against corruption. Even if I americium jailed, my conflict volition continue,” Krishna told reporters. He added that helium has written to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to analyse corruption wrong MUDA, alleging implicit Rs 5,000 crore has been misappropriated.

He besides said that helium plans to record a ceremonial ailment with the ED and has already petitioned the tribunal for a CBI probe into MUDA’s site-allotment irregularities since 2015.