The Karnataka Excessive Court docket on Tuesday adjourned the listening to of a plea searching for a CBI probe into the alleged Mysore City Improvement Authority (MUDA) land rip-off from which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s kinfolk purportedly derived unlawful advantages.
The excessive courtroom adjourned the listening to after a senior counsel knowledgeable that two appeals by Siddaramaiah in reference to the MUDA case have been pending earlier than the courtroom. One is a plea filed in opposition to a excessive courtroom order permitting a probe into land allotted to his spouse, whereas the opposite is an enchantment in opposition to a excessive courtroom order which seeks a standing report on the Lokayukta police probe into the land allotment.
The Karnataka chief minister and his relations are accused of illegally benefiting from the MUDA land alternate scheme by which 3.16 acres of land exterior Mysuru, gifted to Siddaramaiah’s spouse by her brother in 2010, was exchanged for 14 housing websites in a first-rate locality in Mysuru underneath a 50:50 alternate scheme created through the BJP’s 2019-23 rule.
Showing for J Devaraju, whose 3.16 acres of land was purchased by Siddaramaiah’s brother-in-law in 2010, senior counsel Dushyant Dave on Tuesday sought time within the case on the grounds that the appeals are pending earlier than a division bench.
In its adjournment order on Tuesday, the excessive courtroom bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna mentioned, “The discovered counsel submits that if the division bench has mounted its date for December 5, 2024 and due to this fact seeks adjournment to a date after December 5, 2024… Record this matter on December 10, 2024. The understanding is that it will likely be heard on the mentioned date.”
The courtroom had on September 24 allowed a probe into alleged illegalities within the allotment of 14 high-value housing websites by MUDA to Siddaramaiah’s spouse in 2021 in alternate for 3.16 acres of land on the outskirts of Mysuru in a 50:50 land allotment scheme which has since been scrapped by the Congress authorities.
On November 5, the courtroom sought a standing report on the probe within the case by the Lokayukta police. This got here on the plea by activist Snehamayi Krishna searching for a CBI probe into the alleged MUDA rip-off.
The Mysuru unit of the Karnataka Lokayukta police had registered an FIR on September 27 in opposition to Siddaramaiah and others on fees of corruption, dishonest, and forgery on the premise of a non-public grievance filed by Krishna and two others which have been referred to the company by a particular courtroom for elected representatives on September 25.
The particular courtroom referred the matter for a Lokayukta police probe after the Karnataka Excessive Court docket on September 24 upheld the sanction accorded by the Governor for an investigation into the alleged MUDA rip-off.
Siddaramaiah’s spouse has, in the meantime, returned the 14 housing websites granted as compensation to her by MUDA in what’s seen as an effort to keep away from the corruption fees leveled in opposition to her husband over the land deal.
Siddaramaiah’s spouse, brother-in-law named in case
In addition to Siddaramaiah, the others named within the FIR embrace his spouse B M Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy, and Devaraju who beforehand owned the three.16 acres of land.
The excessive courtroom, whereas rejecting Siddaramaiah’s petition, had mentioned, “It’s troublesome to just accept that CM Siddaramaiah was not ‘backstage’ throughout all the transaction of MUDA land, by which his household allegedly benefitted roughly Rs 56 crores.”
