Governor thawarchand Gahlot at sanction siddaramaiah prosecution in the MUDA land scam case based on petition fileds by three activists.
Bengaluru: Karnataka chief minister and senior Congress leader siddaramaiah will be prosecuted over the alleged irregularities in site allocations by the Mysuru urban development authority MUDA governor thawarchand Gahlot has sanctioned his prosecution in the -MUDA-. land scam case after petitions by three activists Pradeep Kumar, TJ Abram, and snehamayi Krishna.
“As directed by the governor’s, I am enclosing hair with the copy of the decision of the competent authority on the request of sanction for prosecution against the chief minister Sri siddaramaiah under section 17 of the prevention of corruption act 1988 and section 218 of the Bhartiya nagrik Suraksha samhitha , 2023 , for the commission of the alleged offences mention in the petition,” side a later from the governors secretariat to the activists.
The chief ministers office CMO has confirmed that is has recieved this communication .
The BJP has welcome the governors go ahead to prosecute siddaramaiah, ” By keeping enough records and evidences against the corrupt scandals of the Congress government and against the bias and corruption of the chief minister relative,siddaramaiah has demonstrated that there is no one to shake him,” side state BJP chief by Vijayendra in an online post.
Defending him Karnataka congress alleged the governor has been delaying action in probes against former chief minister HD Kumar Swami and former Karnataka minister sasikala Jolle and murugesh nirani.” but the fact that the governor acted with all alarming speed only one baseless private complaint against the chief minister siddaramaiah seems to be a politically motivated conspiracy it said.
The governor head last issued a “show cause notice” to the chief minister directing him to reply to the allegations against him within 7 days and state why he shouldn’t be prosecuted.
This sparked a resolution by the state cabinet asking the governor not to sanction the prosecution. the siddaramaiah led government had also advise him to withdraw the notice and alleged “gross misuse of the constitutional office” of the governor.
The governors notice follow a petition by anti corruption activities DJ Abram to prosecute siddaramaiah over alleged irregularities in the MUDA . In his petition, he alleged the multi-crore scam caused huge losses to the states exchequer.
In a complaint filed with the lokayukta police in July, Mr Abraham had alleged that the allotment of 14 alternative sites in an upscale Mysuru neighborhood to siddaramaiah wife BM parvathi was illegal , which caused the exchequer a 45 crore loss.
Another activist , snehamayi Krishan also alleged the involvement of siddaramaiah, his wife , and MUDA and administrative officials in the alleged land scam.a fresh FIR was not filled as the police said probe was already underways in the case.