MUDA scam: Lokayukta police question Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy

According to sources, Devaraju is said to person submitted a compromise petition filed successful a Mysuru tribunal successful 2008. In the petition, helium and different petitioners – claiming ownership of the onshore – approached the tribunal to grounds the presumption of their compromise and walk a decree incorporating the terms.

Both the accused were questioned by Mysuru Lokayukta SP T J Udesh and different officials, regarding the ownership of the said portion of land. This was based connected an FIR filed against Siddaramaiah and others connected September 27, aft a peculiar tribunal for cases involving elected representatives upheld the prosecution authorisation granted by Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot based connected backstage complaints by activists.

Siddaramaiah is named accused fig 1 successful the FIR, and his woman Parvathi is accused fig two. Earlier this month, the Lokayukta constabulary had conducted a tract inspection of the land.

The scam pertains to alleged irregularities successful the alternate sites granted by the MUDA to Parvathi aft it allegedly encroached connected her onshore to conception layouts without the onshore acquisition process. Parvathi had applied for alternate onshore with the MUDA aft it took implicit the land. MUDA granted her 14 sites astatine Vijayanagar successful Mysuru successful 2021.

Parvathi precocious wrote to the MUDA pursuing the row, surrendering the sites allotted to her.