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Informist, Monday, Aug 19, 2024

 

NEW DELHI – Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah moved the state's high court today against Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot's decision to grant permission to prosecute him over allegations related to the Mysore Urban Development Authority site allotment scam. Justice Hemant Chandangoudar said he will hear the chief minister's plea either in the afternoon today or on Tuesday subject to Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria's order.

 

In his petition, Siddaramaiah said the sanction order was issued without due application of mind and in violation of statutory mandates. The governor's decision is legally unsustainable, procedurally flawed, and motivated by extraneous considerations, Siddaramaiah said.

 

On Saturday, the governor allowed three private complainants to file cases in court seeking a probe against Congress' Siddaramaiah over the allotment of 14 housing sites in Mysuru to his wife in 2021--when the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power--in exchange for 3.16 acres of land acquired from her by the Mysuru authorities.

 

The three private complaints--T.J. Abraham, Pradeep Kumar, and Snehamayi Krishna, all anti-corruption activists--had approached the governor in July alleging corruption in the acquisition of 3.16 acres of land in Kesare village of Mysuru in 2004 by Siddaramaiah's brother-in-law. In 2010, the brother-in-law gifted the land to Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi B.M. Subsequently, in 2021, the land in question was exchanged for 14 housing sites by the Mysore Urban Development Authority under a 50:50 scheme in Mysuru's Vijaynagar area. Under this scheme, land equivalent to half the acquired land is allotted in a developed area.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Namrata Rao

 

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