Karnataka: CM Siddaramaiah gets HC breather in MUDA case; Ex-CM Yediyurappa gets partial relief in POCSO case
Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged scam in allotment of housing plots by Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife in a big relief to the Congress leader.
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Justice M Nagaprasanna at the High Court ruled that the Lokayukta, which is currently probing the case, is competent and independent to investigate the complaint. The apex and high courts have in the past recognized the independence of the Lokayukta, and there was no evidence to doubt bias in the ongoing probe.
The Lokayutka Police are investigating an FIR they registered on Sep 27 in Mysuru against the CM, his wife BM Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuja Swamy and landowner Devaraju in a case of alleged unlawful allotment of 14 housing plots in the same city to CM’s wife. The allotments were made by the MUDA and the FIR names Siddaramaiah as the first accused.
The High Court judgement came on a petition filed by activist Snehamayi Krishna, who had first complained to the Governor Thawarchand Gehlot requesting sanction against the CM, last year. His petition had expressed lack of confidence in the Lokayukta probe on the grounds that its police wing comes directly under the administrative purview of the CM.
Opposition leader in the assembly R Ashoka (BJP) said his party would continue its legal fight against the CM in the alleged MUDA site scam.
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