CM Siddaramaiah’s wife and UD Minister cannot escape from ED, says BJP
Bengaluru (PTI): The BJP on Monday said the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife Parvathi B M and the Urban Development Minister Byrathi Suresh cannot escape from the Enforcement Directorate in the MUDA site allotment scam.
He was reacting to ED’s notice to Parvathi to appear before the investigating officer on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Parvathi, his brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and others are accused in the case.
Parvathi is accused of obtaining 14 Mysuru Urban Development Authority sites in the Mysuru upmarket against the acquisition of her three acres and 16 guntas of land in Kesare village in Mysuru.
Besides Lokayukta police, the Enforcement Directorate is also probing the money laundering aspect involved in the case.
"Chief Minister’s wife and Byrathi Suresh cannot escape from the investigating agency," BJP state president B Y Vijayendra told reporters here.
He said he has information that the Lokayukta police have submitted a closure report to the High Court giving a clean chit to Siddaramaiah and others in the matter.
He said he has taken note of Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar’s statement that the case is politically motivated.
“I could see the grin on Shivakumar’s face. Whatever the matter could be but this is a major setback for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who was in a bid to get the case closed,” Vijayendra said.
The Shikaripura MLA said the Chief Minister thought he would come out of the MUDA scam after Parvathi wrote to the MUDA commissioner returning the sites, but he must be hurt by the ED’s notice.
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Wangchuk not given videos which formed basis of his detention: Wife to SC
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New Delhi (PTI): Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali J Angmo alleged in the Supreme Court on Thursday that four videos which formed the basis of her husband's detention were not shown to him and only the thumbnails on pen drive were displayed.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing in the court for Angmo, told a bench of justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B Varale that not supplying the videos violated Wangchuk's right to effective representation before the advisory board as well as the government.
"It is now alleged by the State that that DIG came with a laptop and shown four videos. The laptop was provided to detenue on October 5, 2025, but those four vidoes were not there.
"Let us assume they showed it to be, that is not the requirement of law. The requirement is to give it to me. They have to provide the document, I don't have to ask. It is there constitutional duty to supply. We have said that time and again that the four was never supplied," Sibal said.
Another lawyer assisting Sibal informed the court that the pen drive was inserted in the laptop before Wangchuk and he only saw the thumbnails.
"The videos were not actually played. None of the thumbnails were actually clicked," the lawyer said.
Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj submitted that there is a video in which the conversation with the DIG and detenue will show everything.
The top court said it see the relevant video recordings, including a 40-minute video of the interaction between police officials and the detenue.
The matter is now posted for hearing on February 23.
On Monday, the apex court had questioned the Centre about the transcripts of videos submitted by it against Wangchuk and said the translations should be precise in the age of artificial intelligence.
It had told Nataraj that it wanted actual transcripts of Wangchuk's statements from the government after Sibal submitted that some of the words attributed to the activist were never said by him.
The top court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali Angmo, seeking a declaration that his detention under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, is illegal.
The NSA empowers the Centre and the states to detain individuals to prevent them from acting in a manner "prejudicial to the defence of India."
The maximum detention period is 12 months, though it can be revoked earlier. Angmo said the violence in Leh on September 24 last year cannot be attributed in any manner to the actions or statements of Wangchuk.
Wangchuk himself condemned the violence through his social media handles and categorically said it would lead to the failure of Ladakh's "tapasya" and its peaceful pursuit of five years, Angmo said, adding that it was the saddest day of his life.
