Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah appeared in Lokayukta police here on Wednesday as called by summons to question regarding the case of MUDA site allotment.
The Chief Minister who is accused No.1 in the case for illegalities in allotment of 14 sites from Mysuru Urban Development Authority to his wife, Parvathi B M.
They have questioned his wife on 25th October, who is accused number 2 according to the name given to her.
Siddaramaiah's wife, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju — from whom Swamy had purchased a land and gifted it to Parvathi — and others have been named in the FIR registered by the Mysuru-located Lokayukta police establishment on September 27.
Swamy and Devaraju have already deposed before the Lokayukta police.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court had issued notice to Siddaramaiah and others on a writ petition filed by RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna, seeking a direction to transfer the case to CBI.
Justice M Nagaprasanna, who also issued notice to Parvathi, Swamy, Union of India, the State government, CBI, Lokayukta and others, directed the Lokayukta to place on record investigation conducted in the case so far.
The court fixed the next hearing for November 26. On October 24, the CM filed an appeal before the division bench of the High Court against the judgment by a single judge bench that was in disfavor of the allotment case of the site in MUDA.
On September 24, the bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna had dismissed the CM's petition challenging Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot's approval for a probe against him in the case, holding that the gubernatorial order nowhere "suffers from want of application of mind".
Siddaramaiah had challenged the legality of Gehlot's sanction for the investigation against him in the alleged irregularities in the allotment of 14 sites by MUDA in a prime locality.
Following the High Court order, a Special Court here on the very next day had ordered Lokayukta police probe into Siddaramaiah, directing that the investigation report be filed before December 24.
Parvathi, meanwhile had written to MUDA to cancel all 14 sites allotted to her and MUDA had accepted it.
On September 30, the ED filed an enforcement case information report (ECIR) to book the CM and others taking cognisance of the Lokayukta FIR, and is also probing the case.
It is alleged that 14 compensatory sites were allotted to his wife in the upmarket area in Mysuru (Vijayanagar Layout 3rd and 4th stages) in the MUDA site allotment case, whose property value is higher compared to the place where her land had been "acquired" by MUDA.
The MUDA had allocated plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 ratio scheme in lieu of 3.16 acres of her land, where it developed a residential layout.
Under the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land to the land losers in lieu of undeveloped land acquired from them for forming residential layouts.
It is alleged Parvathi had no legal title over this 3.16 acres of land at survey number 464 of Kasare village on the outskirts of Mysuru.
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