MYSURU :
Lokayukta police survey land in lieu of which CM’s wife allotted 14 sites
THE Mysuru Urban
Development Authority
(MUDA) on Tuesday decided
to take back 14 plots allotted
to Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah’swifeParvathiB
M, following her decision to
relinquishtheirownershipand
possession.
The MUDA has ordered to
cancel the sale deed of these
plots. Hours after ED booked
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
inamoneylaunderingcase,his
wife on Monday wrote to
MUDAconveyingherdecision
to relinquish the ownership
andpossessionof14plots statingthatnosite,home,assetand
wealth is bigger for her than
her husband’s respect, dignity, honour and peace of mind.
“Smt. Parvathi’s son Dr
Yathindra, a MLC, had submitted a letter....We have gone
through the provisions in our
act.There areprovisions inour
acttotakeitwhengiven(back)
voluntarily,” MUDA
Commissioner A N
Raghunandan said.
Addressing reporters here,
he said, “After consulting
panel advocates and the legal
officer, and after determining
that everything is correct, we
arrived at a conclusion. So, we
have ordered to take it back.
We have ordered to cancel the
sale deed and handed it over
to the sub registrar.”
Meanwhile, a team of
Lokayukta police and others
onTuesday surveyed the land,
in lieu of which 14 sites were
“illegally” allotted to Parvathi.
The Lokayukta team was
joined by the special land
acquisition officer, surveyors
and town planning members
fromMUDA,andtheysurveyed
the land and took notes, official sources said.
Social activist Snehamayi
Krishna on whose complaint
the Lokayukta police has registered an FIR against
Siddaramaiah,hiswifeandtwo
others, was also present, they
said. Krishna on Tuesday
appearedbeforetheLokayukta
policehere,followingthenotice
issued to him by the investigating officers.
CM questions ED slapping PMLA case
against him, rules out resignation
BENGALURU,
KARNATAKA Chief Minister
Siddaramaiahquestionedthe
ED slapping a money laundering case against him in
the MUDA ‘scam’ and once
again ruled out his resignation over the issue.
Siddaramaiah also alleged
thathiswifeParvathiBM,who
decidedtorelinquishtheownership and possession of 14
plots that was allotted to her
by theMUDA(Mysuru Urban
DevelopmentAuthority),was
a victim of ‘politics of hate’
against him and he was surprised byhermove.Ateamof
Lokayukta police probing
MUDA site allotment case
againstSiddaramaiahandothers on Tuesday surveyed the
land, in lieu of which 14 sites
were “illegally” allotted to his
wife in Mysuru.
“I don’t know on what
grounds it’s a money-laundering case. Probably you
(reporters)toofeelthe same.
According to me, it does not
attractthemoneylaundering
case because compensatory
sites were given. So, how is it
a money-laundering case?”,
the CM said here.
After MUDA row, BJP questions land
allocation to Kharge family-run trust
NEW DELHI,
AMID a row over MUDA site
allocation,theBJPonTuesday
raised the issue of allocation
of a land to a trust run by
AICC President Mallikarjun
Kharge’sfamilyinBengaluru,
alleging that the Congress
leaders’ families are engaged
in “land grab”.
Senior BJP leader Ravi
Shankar Prasad alleged that
theCongress Governmentin
Karnataka has allocated 5
acres of land to Siddhartha
Vihar Trust, run by Kharge’s
family,under“suspiciouscircumstances” anddemanded
a “transparent and honest”
replyfromtheCongresspresident to the questions being
raised on the issue. “It’s surprisingthattheSiddaramaiah
Government allocatedthe 5-
acrelandtothetrustinahightech defence area in
Bangalore for setting up an
R&Dfacility,”hesaid.“Andthe
interesting thing about it is
that this 5-acre land was given (to the Kharge family-run
trust) within a few days of
framing of the rules for (setting up of) R&D facilities in
the area,” he added.