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Siddaramaiah additionally demanded the resignation of PM Modi and HD Kumaraswamy. (Picture: PTI)
A petition has been filed within the Excessive Court docket of Karnataka, looking for a CBI probe in opposition to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in reference to the alleged MUDA rip-off.
Advocate Vasant Kumar, representing petitioner activist Snehamayi Krishna on Friday stated that they’ve filed a writ petition and are looking for Excessive Court docket instructions to handover the case to the CBI to hold out a good investigation within the writ petition.
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“As we speak we have now filed a writ petition making enchantment to direct handy over the MUDA investigation to the CBI, it can come listening to on Monday. we have now additionally referred within the yesterday’s particular court docket order within the petition, prima facie is that MUDA is a giant rip-off, that is why we have now requested the excessive court docket for the CBI inquiry within the case for the free and truthful inquiry into the case,” Kumar instructed ANI.
Earlier, a Particular Court docket in Bengaluru on Wednesday handed an order directing Karnataka Lokyukta to conduct an investigation in opposition to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on the allegation of illegalities within the allotment of 14 websites value Rs 56 crore to his spouse Parvathi by the Mysuru City Growth Authority (MUDA).
Karnataka Lokayukta’s Mysuru district police need to conduct the investigation and submit its report in three months. The Particular Court docket’s order got here after the Karnataka Excessive Court docket on Tuesday vacated its interim keep order granted on August 19 directing the court docket to defer the choice on the complaints in opposition to Siddaramaiah.
The order got here on the petition of social activist Snehamayi Krishna.
Amidst these developments, regardless of robust calls for from the BJP to resign, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has refused to step down.
In response to the BJP’s calls for, Siddaramaiah has identified that there are additionally FIRs in opposition to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others in reference to the electoral bond concern.
He argued that if he ought to resign as a result of an FIR, then Sitharaman and others also needs to step down.
“As per 17A, they had been requested to do an inquiry and to offer a report earlier than 3 months as per the particular court docket, as per that, they are going to file an FIR and do an investigation. There’s an FIR in opposition to Nirmala Sitharaman as properly within the individuals’s consultant court docket; who’s she (Finance Minister) associated to electoral bond? An FIR has been filed in opposition to her; should not she additionally give her resignation?. Allow them to (BJP) resign; in my case, the decrease particular court docket took the choice and requested to investigate and to offer the report in 3 months,” Siddaramaiah stated.
Siddaramaiah additionally demanded the resignation of PM Modi and HD Kumaraswamy.
“Allow them to first take the resignation of HD Kumaraswamy and others; should not they make them Kumaraswamy resign? Even Modi additionally has to resign within the electoral bond concern. They’ve misused the electoral bond and looted; in that concern, HD Kumarswamy, Nirmala Sitharaman and Modi resign first,” Siddaramaiah stated.
The matter pertains to the allegation in opposition to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on illegalities within the allotment of 14 websites value Rs 56 crore to his spouse Parvathi by the Mysuru City Growth Authority (MUDA).
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First Revealed: Sep 28 2024 | 10:09 AM IST
