CM Siddaramaiah's wife announces surrendering of compensatory sites received from MUDA
Bengaluru: Hours after the Enforcement Directorate lodged a case against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his wife BM Parvati on Monday in a letter announced about returning the compensatory land sites received from the Mysuru Urban Development Authority.
It is worth noting that BM Parvati is also the accused in a money-laundering case linked to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
In a letter addressed to the authority, BM Parvathi expressed her intent to return the 14 plots, emphasizing that the dignity and honor of her family were far more important to her than wealth. “I have not discussed this with my husband, son, or any family member,” she wrote.
According to reports, The Enforcement Directorate has filed an enforcement case information report (ECIR) , which is equivalent to a police First Information Report (FIR) to book the chief minister and others under the sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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The Lokayukta police filed a First Information Report (FIR) last week against Siddaramaiah, Parvathi, Mallikarjun Swamy, Parvathi's brother-in-law, and a man named Devaraj, who was the source of the land that Mallikarjuna Swamy bought and gave to Parvathi.
The complaint was filed after a Bengaluru special court directed the Lokayukta police to look into claims that Siddaramaiah had committed irregularities in the Mysuru development authority's ₹56 million awarding of 14 sites to the chief minister's wife.
It is alleged that Siddaramaiah's wife was given compensated sites in a popular Mysuru neighborhood, which is worth more than the land that MUDA purportedly "acquired." The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 program in return for 3.16 acres of her land, where it created a residential project.
Under this controversial arrangement, MUDA provided 50 per cent of the developed land to landowners in lieu of undeveloped land acquired for residential projects. The 3.16 acres of land at survey number 464 in Kasare village, Kasaba hobli in Mysuru taluk, are allegedly not legally Parvathi's.
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Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk among 120 people from Ladakh detained before entering Delhi
New Delhi, Sep 30: Around 120 people from Ladakh including climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who had marched to the national capital demanding sixth schedule status for the Union Territory, have been detained by the Delhi Police at the city's border, police sources said.
According to Delhi Police sources, the detained people, including Wangchuk, will be taken to different police stations along the city border.
Women participating in the march were not detained, the source said, adding that the detentions were done in view of prohibitory orders banning gatherings of five or more persons in north and central Delhi.
Wangchuk, in a post on Instagram shortly before being detained, shared visuals from the Delhi border, where amid huge police presence their buses were stopped.
The climate activist could be seen interacting with police officials in the video.
In his post, Wangchuk said several vehicles of Delhi Police and Haryana Police were accompanying their buses and while they initially thought they were being escorted, as they approached the national capital, it was clear they were going to be detained.
"As we are approaching Delhi, it appears we are not being escorted, we are being detained," Wangchuk said.
He said around 1,000 police personnel have been deployed at the Delhi border and they have been informed that heavy deployment of security forces has been done at the Ladakh Bhawan in Delhi, and in areas where students from Ladakh reside.
"It appears they don't want to allow this padyatra to take place," he said.
The 'Delhi Chalo Padyatra' was organised by the Leh Apex Body (LAB), which along with Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), are jointly spearheading an agitation over the past four years in support of statehood, extension of the Constitution's sixth schedule, early recruitment process along with a public service commission for Ladakh and separate Lok Sabha seats for Leh and Kargil districts.
Delhi Police on Monday banned the gathering of five or more persons, people carrying banners, placards arms and or protests in the central part and bordering areas for the next six days in the national capital, citing law and order issues, including calls of protests given by several organisations.
According to an order issued from the Delhi Police Headquarters, Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora has directed to impose the section 163 (which was earlier section 144 of CrPC) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita in the districts of New Delhi, North and Central and all police stations jurisdiction sharing the borders with other states.
The prohibitory order will remain effective till October 5.
