L J Ravi 
Mysore: Mysore Urban Development The Lokayukta police here on Friday registered an FIR against four persons, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on the charge of illegally acquiring land from the authority.
Siddaramaiah is the first accused, his wife BM Parvathy is the second accused, Mallikarjunaswamy and Deveraju of the land are the fourth accused.
High Command to support Siddaramaiah: Kharge
the case But, daily Cangreno will represent me about this. AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge said that the high command, including myself, is in their support.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, he said, ‘If he (Siddaramaiah) should resign immediately after the FIR, did Narendra Modi resign on that day after taking moral responsibility for the massacre after Godhra? A case was registered against Amit Shah. He questioned.
“No one should be targeted personally. Siddaramaiah said BJP’s intention is to harm the Congress party by tarnishing its charisma.
Writ Bengaluru seeking CBI probe: Why ‘gang related investigation against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his family members should be entrusted to CBI’
This writ petition filed by Snehamai Krishna of Mysore on Friday is yet to be scheduled for hearing. Union Home Ministry Secretary, State Home Department Superintendent of Police, Mysore District Lokayukta, State DG-IGP, Lokayukta ADGP, Vijayanagar Police Station Officer, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, BM Parvathy, Mallikarjuna Swamy and J. Devaraju have been made respondents in the petition.
An FIR has been registered under Section 154 CrPC. Section of the Indian Penal Code Act
1200, 166, 403, 406, 420, 426, 465, 486, 340, 351 and Section 9, 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, Section 3, 53, 54 of the Prevention of Benami Property Act 1988 and Section 3 of the Karnataka Land Acquisition Act 2011, 4ft police will investigate.
Social activist Snehamai Krishna had filed a private complaint in the special court of people’s representatives in Bengaluru demanding that ‘Siddaramaiah family has misused their power and obtained plots from Muda illegally, and an investigation should be ordered.’
The Karnataka High Court’s dismissal of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s petition challenging the Governor’s sanction for inquiry against him in the MUDA (Mysore Urban Development Authority) case is not just a political setback for Siddaramaiah but raises the question whether it is tenable for him to continue in office. The single-judge bench of Justice Nagaprasanna has paved the way for a Lokayukta investigation — which has now been ordered by a special court — to “connect the dots” in the allotment of 14 sites to Siddaramaiah’s wife Parvathi, when she should have got only two sites as per rules. The judge himself connected some initial dots and raised some questions and inferences: Would the allotments have been made, “bending the rule from time to time”, if the beneficiary were not the wife of a politician wielding power in various positions, including as Deputy Chief Minister and Chief Minister? While Siddaramaiah might not have signed any of the allotment documents or issued orders for the same, can he claim that he was not aware of what was happening in the life of his wife, that she was claiming and getting benefits beyond her entitlement? These questions naturally lead to the judge’s finding that, “It, prima facie, depicts stretching of the arms of undue influence and portrays abuse of power of the seat of the Chief Minister or any other post held by Mr Siddaramaiah”. For a politician who has had a relatively clean image over a long political career, these observations are damning, not least because these are the very questions that the common man and voter, too, would be asking, given the facts of the case.
