The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday ordered notice to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his wife Parvathy and others on an appeal from social activist Snehamayi Krishna questioning a single judge order rejecting his request for transfer of MUDA case from Lokayukta to the CBI for a fair probe.
A division bench comprising chief justice NV Anjaria and Justice KV Arvind ordered notices to respondents returnable on April 28, posting the hearing on that day. The same day an appeal challenging a single judge order upholding the Governor’s permission to probe the role of CM and others in the MUDA plot allotment case is coming before the court.
Justice N Nagaprasanna at the High Court had, on February 7, dismissed Krishna’s petition seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged scam in allotment of housing plots by Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to the CM’s.
The Judge had ruled that the Lokayukta, which is currently probing the case, was competent and independent to investigate the complaint. The apex and high courts have in the past recognized the independence of the Lokayukta, and there was no evidence to doubt bias in the ongoing probe.
Senior Advocate KG Raghavan appearing for the activist informed the bench that his client was requesting a mandamus, not challenging an order of a court.
The Lokayutka Police are investigating an FIR they registered on Sep 27 in Mysuru against the CM, his wife, brother-in-law Mallikarjuja Swamy and landowner Devaraju in a case of alleged unlawful allotment of 14 housing plots in the same city to CM’s wife. The allotments were made by the MUDA and the FIR names Siddaramaiah as the first accused.
The High Court judgement came on a petition filed by activist Snehamayi Krishna, who had first complained to the Governor Thawarchand Gehlot requesting sanction against the CM, last year. His petition had expressed lack of confidence in the Lokayukta probe on the grounds that its police wing comes directly under the administrative purview of the CM.
A division bench comprising chief justice NV Anjaria and Justice KV Arvind ordered notices to respondents returnable on April 28, posting the hearing on that day. The same day an appeal challenging a single judge order upholding the Governor’s permission to probe the role of CM and others in the MUDA plot allotment case is coming before the court.
Justice N Nagaprasanna at the High Court had, on February 7, dismissed Krishna’s petition seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged scam in allotment of housing plots by Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to the CM’s.
The Judge had ruled that the Lokayukta, which is currently probing the case, was competent and independent to investigate the complaint. The apex and high courts have in the past recognized the independence of the Lokayukta, and there was no evidence to doubt bias in the ongoing probe.
Senior Advocate KG Raghavan appearing for the activist informed the bench that his client was requesting a mandamus, not challenging an order of a court.
The Lokayutka Police are investigating an FIR they registered on Sep 27 in Mysuru against the CM, his wife, brother-in-law Mallikarjuja Swamy and landowner Devaraju in a case of alleged unlawful allotment of 14 housing plots in the same city to CM’s wife. The allotments were made by the MUDA and the FIR names Siddaramaiah as the first accused.
The High Court judgement came on a petition filed by activist Snehamayi Krishna, who had first complained to the Governor Thawarchand Gehlot requesting sanction against the CM, last year. His petition had expressed lack of confidence in the Lokayukta probe on the grounds that its police wing comes directly under the administrative purview of the CM.
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