Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been accused in a cash laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the alleged Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA) land rip-off. The case was filed after the Enforcement Directorate took be aware of a First Data Report filed by the Lokayukta.
Moreover Mr Siddaramaiah, his spouse BM Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju — from whom Swamy had bought land and gifted it to Parvathi — and others have been named within the FIR registered by the Lokayukta police on September 27.
The FIR was filed following the orders of a particular courtroom, after the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom upheld Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s clearance for an investigation in opposition to the Chief Minister.
The MUDA case entails allegations of illegalities within the allotment of 14 websites to Mr Siddaramaiah’s spouse by the authority. It has been alleged that compensatory websites allotted to Mr Siddaramaiah’s spouse – positioned in an upmarket space in Mysuru – is way larger than the land acquired from her by MUDA.
Mr Siddaramaiah has denied any wrongdoing and claimed the allegations in opposition to him are politically motivated.
Mr Siddaramaiah is the newest Opposition Chief Minister to have been named as an accused in a corruption case. Earlier, the Central companies had named and arrested Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Aam Aadmi Get together’s Arvind Kejriwal, who has since stepped down from the Delhi Chief Minister’s publish.
Mr Kejriwal bought bail from the Supreme Courtroom after being in Tihar Jail for practically six months. Mr Soren bought bail after 5 months. The Supreme Courtroom had refused to entertain the Enforcement’s Directorate’s petition difficult the bail order from the Excessive Courtroom.