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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Raichur: Four people, including three students, were killed when a tyre of the Cruiser vehicle they were traveling in burst, resulting in the vehicle rolling sideways on the stretch near Arginamara Camp in Sindhanur taluk on Tuesday night.

The deceased have been identified as Hayavadana (18), Sujayedra (22) and Abhilash (20), who were students of the Guru Sarvabhauma Samskrita Vidyapeetha in Mantralaya, Andhra Pradesh, and cruiser driver Kamsali Shiva (24). Ten other travelers were seriously injured and are being treated at the Sindhanur Taluk Hospital.

The accident occurred while the group was traveling from Mantralaya at attend an event for the worship of Narahari Theertha near Anegundi in Koppal district. The vehicle tyre burst near the Sindhanur Vaishnavi Devi Gudi Cross on the Raichur-Sindhanur main road. As a result, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which toppled on the road.

A case has been registered at the Sindhanur Traffic Police Station in this regard. The officers are investigating.