Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday appeared before the Lokayukta police in response to summons issued for questioning in the MUDA site allocation case. They had on October 25 questioned his wife, who has been named as accused number 2. The CM, who has been named as accused number 1 in the FIR lodged by the Lokayukta police, is facing allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 sites. Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Siddaramaiah and others on a writ petition filed by RTI activist Snehamoyee Krishna, seeking direction to transfer the case to the CBI. Justice M Nagaprasanna, who also issued notices to Parvathi, Swamy, Union of India, state government, CBI, Lokayukta and others, directed the Lokayukta to place on record the investigation conducted so far in the case. The court has fixed the next hearing for November 26.
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On September 30, the ED took cognizance of the Lokayukta’s FIR and filed an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) to register a case against the CM and others and is also investigating the case. In the MUDA site allotment case, it has been alleged that Siddaramaiah’s wife was allotted 14 compensatory sites in an upscale area in Mysuru (Vijayanagar Layout 3rd and 4th Phase) whose property value was higher than the location of her land. .
MUDA had allotted plots to Parvati under the 50:50 ratio scheme in exchange for her 3.16 acres of land, where it had developed a residential layout. Under the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land in exchange for undeveloped land acquired from land losers to build residential layouts. It is alleged that Parvati had no legal right on 3.16 acres of land in survey number 464 of Kasare village on the outskirts of Mysore.
