MYSURU: Karnataka Lokayukta registered an FIR Friday towards CM Siddaramaiah, his spouse B M Parvathi and brother-in-law B M Mallikarjuna Swamy for alleged corruption, land seize, dishonest and forgery linked to the Mysore City Improvement Authority (Muda) land allotment case.
The FIR was filed on the directions of a particular court docket in Mysuru that requested the Lokayukta Wednesday to begin an investigation towards the CM and his relations, primarily based on activist Snehamayi Krishna’s criticism towards them.Hours earlier than the FIR naming Siddaramaiah was filed, AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge broke his silence on the clamour for the CM’s resignation and declared there was no chargesheet or conviction within the case for BJP to even recommend he ought to step down.
“Let the legislation take its course… We’re standing by him and supporting him as a result of he represents the get together, not a person. Proper now, there’s nothing. If any such scenario arises, the get together will study it.”
Activist Krishna filed a petition within the excessive court docket Friday, asking for the probe to be transferred to CBI for the reason that cash concerned within the alleged rip-off exceeds Rs 50 crore. He argued that there was a risk of the CM influencing the Lokayukta probe as police take orders from the state govt. HC may take up the petition on Sept 30, sources mentioned.
The Congress authorities Thursday had withdrawn “normal consent” to CBI to begin any new probe towards public servants within the state.
The particular court docket’s order to file an FIR got here a day after Karnataka HC rejected Siddaramaiah’s authorized problem of governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot’s order sanctioning a probe into costs that he used “undue affect” to get 14 plots allotted to his spouse within the coronary heart of Mysuru as a part of an allegedly unlawful land-swap.
The FIR invokes sections of the IPC, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, and the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act, 2011.
Lokayukta’s transient is to analyze the method of allotting 14 plots valued at Rs 56 crore to Siddaramaiah’s spouse.
