Bengaluru: Slamming Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for the Karnataka Cabinet decision to withdraw consent for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct criminal investigations in the state, Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy has said that the decision proves the CM to be guilty in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) illegal land acquisition scam.

Posting his opinion in sharp words on his personal ‘X’ account on Friday, Kumaraswamy called the decision also an outcome of Siddaramaiah’s changing colours and said mockingly, “You earlier halted the Lokayukta investigation and got an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) formed to prevent your involvement in scams from coming to light. Today, however, to save your skin in the MUDA scam, you have no help left except the Lokayukta.”

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The Minister also called it a situation of facing the fruits of one’s own actions. “Is this not merely a case of ‘Karma Hit Back’? Unfortunately for you, the High Court has stalled the ACB from coming to your help. Now, you have nowhere to go for help but the Lokayukta. Your Cabinet, therefore, is stopping the CBI from conducting a probe in the state. This is proof that the suspect in the case is indeed the guilty party,” Kumaraswamy has said critically in his post.

Opining in his post that Siddaramaiah was not excessively brave, as Kumaraswamy himself had assumed, but certainly had his own share of fears, the minister called it an impact of the power of the law.

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Imphal, Nov 24: The autopsy reports of three of the six persons killed in Manipur's Jiribam district by suspected Kuki militants revealed multiple bullet injuries and lacerations on various parts of their bodies, officials said on Sunday.

The report of three-year-old Chingkheinganba Singh showed that his right eye was missing and he had a bullet wound in the skull, they said.

The report also noted cut wounds, fractures in the chest, and lacerations on the forearm and other parts of his body. Signed on November 17, the report indicated that the child's body was in a "state of decomposition", they added.

The report said the cause of death would be pending until the receipt of the chemical analysis report of viscera from the Directorate of Forensic Sciences in Guwahati, officials said.

The post-mortem examinations were conducted at the Silchar Medical College Hospital (SMCH) in Assam's Cachar district.

The report also detailed the injuries sustained by his mother, L Heitonbi Devi (25), who had "three bullet wounds in the chest and one in the buttock", officials said.

According to the report, her body was brought to SMCH on November 18, around seven days after her death, they said.

The child's grandmother, Y Rani Devi (60), suffered five bullet wounds -- one in the skull, two in the chest, one in the abdomen, and one in an arm, officials said.

Her body was brought to SMCH on November 17, at least three to five days after her death, the report noted.

The autopsy reports also showed deep lacerations on many parts of the bodies of the two women.

The cause of Rani Devi's death is also yet to be known, awaiting the chemical analysis report of the viscera, officials said.

The post-mortem reports of one more woman and two children are still pending, they said.

The six persons belonging to the Meitei community had gone missing from a relief camp in Jiribam after a gunfight between security forces and suspected Kuki-Zo militants that resulted in the deaths of 10 insurgents on November 11.

Their bodies were found in the Jiri river in Jiribam district, and the nearby Barak river in Assam's Cachar over the next few days.