Muda ‘scam’: Sidda files plea challenging probe sanction

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has filed an appeal before the division bench of the High Court, challenging the decision of a single judge bench in connection with the MUDA site allotment case that had come as a setback to him.

The bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna had on September 24 dismissed the CM’s petition challenging Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot’s approval for a probe against him in the case, observing that the gubernatorial order nowhere “suffers from want of application of mind”.

The CM had challenged the legality of Gehlot’s sanction for the investigation against him in the alleged irregularities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife Parvathi BM by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) in a prime locality. Following the HC order, a Special Court here on the very next day had ordered a Lokayukta police probe against Siddaramaiah and directed to file probe report by December 24.