Following plea for CBI probe in MUDA land case, Karnataka HC seeks status report from Lokayukta police

During the archetypal proceeding of the plea, the Karnataka High Court ordered the issuance of notices to the authorities government, the Centre, the CBI, and Lokayukta constabulary and sought a study connected the authorities of the probe by November 26.

Incidentally, the Karnataka Lokayukta constabulary had connected Monday issued a announcement to Siddaramaiah to look earlier the bureau connected November 6. The Lokayukta constabulary registered an FIR successful the substance based connected the directions of a section tribunal aft the Karnataka High Court upheld the authorisation accorded by Governor Thawarchand Gehlot for an probe into the alleged MUDA scam.

On September 27, the Mysuru portion of the Karnataka Lokayukta constabulary registered an FIR against Siddaramaiah and others connected charges of corruption, cheating, and forgery connected the ground of a backstage ailment referred to the bureau by a peculiar tribunal for elected representatives connected September 25.

Krishna had sought a probe by the “CBI/any autarkic investigating bureau which does not travel nether the authorities government/Lokayukta Police Wing” but the peculiar tribunal connected September 25 had referred the substance to the Lokayukta police.

Though Krishna had insisted that helium would question a CBI probe successful the case, past month, the Karnataka authorities decided astatine a furniture gathering to retreat unfastened consent for the cardinal bureau to probe cases successful the state.

Meanwhile, an entreaty filed by Siddaramaiah against the determination of a azygous justice to let a probe into the alleged MUDA scam is pending successful the precocious court.

The inheritance of the case

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his household members are accused of benefiting from a Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) onshore speech strategy wherever a 3.16-acre crippled extracurricular Mysuru, which was talented to Siddaramaiah’s woman B M Parvathi by her member successful 2010, was exchanged for 14 lodging sites successful a premier locality successful Mysuru nether a 50:50 speech strategy created during the BJP authorities from 2019 to 2023.

The alleged amerciable onshore speech is reported to person caused a nonaccomplishment of Rs 56 crore to the state, according to activists Snehamayi Krishna, T J Abraham, and Pradeep Kumar.

In July, Krishna, Abraham and Kumar obtained Governor Thawarchand Gehlot’s support nether Section 17 A of the Prevention of Corruption Act for an probe against Siddaramaiah successful the alleged MUDA scam. The precocious tribunal upheld the governor’s decision.

Apart from Siddaramaiah, the others named successful the FIR registered by the Mysuru Lokayukta constabulary connected the ground of Krishna’s ailment are Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy, and a erstwhile landowner Devaraju.

Following the precocious tribunal order, a peculiar tribunal for elected representatives connected September 25 referred the backstage complaints to the constabulary helping of the Lokayukta for investigation.

The precocious court, portion rejecting Siddaramaiah’s petition, had said: “It is hard to judge that CM Siddaramaiah was not “behind the curtain” during the full transaction of MUDA land, successful which his household allegedly benefitted astir Rs 56 crores.”

Meanwhile, connected September 28, soon aft the Directorate of Enforcement began a wealth laundering probe successful the alleged MUDA scam, Parvathi wrote to MUDA, asking it to cancel the merchantability deeds of the alternate sites allotted to her. The MUDA accepted the missive and cancelled the deal.

Following the tribunal verdicts, the Opposition BJP has stepped up protests demanding Siddaramaiah’s resignation. The Karnataka main minister, however, has remained defiant. The Congress has backed him saying the cases are motivated.