Plea for CBI probe: Karnataka High Court adjourns hearing in MUDA land case after counsel cites pending appeals

The Karnataka main curate and his household members are accused of illegally benefiting from the MUDA onshore speech scheme successful which 3.16 acres of onshore extracurricular Mysuru, talented to Siddaramaiah’s woman 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’s 2019-23 rule.

Appearing for J Devaraju, whose 3.16 acres of onshore was bought by Siddaramaiah’s brother-in-law successful 2010, elder counsel Dushyant Dave connected Tuesday sought clip successful the lawsuit connected the grounds that the appeals are pending earlier a part bench.

In its adjournment bid connected Tuesday, the precocious tribunal seat of Justice M Nagaprasanna said, “The learned counsel submits that if the part seat has fixed its day for December 5, 2024 and truthful seeks adjournment to a day aft December 5, 2024… List this substance connected December 10, 2024. The knowing is that it volition beryllium heard connected the said date.”

The tribunal had connected September 24 allowed a probe into alleged illegalities successful the allotment of 14 high-value lodging sites by MUDA to Siddaramaiah’s woman successful 2021 successful speech for 3.16 acres of onshore connected the outskirts of Mysuru successful a 50:50 onshore allotment strategy which has since been scrapped by the Congress government.

On November 5, the tribunal sought a presumption study connected the probe successful the lawsuit by the Lokayukta police. This came connected the plea by activistic Snehamayi Krishna seeking a CBI probe into the alleged MUDA scam.

The Mysuru portion of the Karnataka Lokayukta constabulary had registered an FIR connected September 27 against Siddaramaiah and others connected charges of corruption, cheating, and forgery connected the ground of a backstage ailment filed by Krishna and 2 others which were referred to the bureau by a peculiar tribunal for elected representatives connected September 25.

The peculiar tribunal referred the substance for a Lokayukta constabulary probe aft the Karnataka High Court connected September 24 upheld the authorisation accorded by the Governor for an probe into the alleged MUDA scam.

Siddaramaiah’s woman has, meanwhile, returned the 14 lodging sites granted arsenic compensation to her by MUDA successful what is seen arsenic an effort to debar the corruption charges leveled against her hubby implicit the onshore deal.

Siddaramaiah’s wife, brother-in-law named successful case

Besides Siddaramaiah, the others named successful the FIR see his woman B M Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy, and Devaraju who antecedently owned the 3.16 acres of land.

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.”