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‘A Rs 4,000-cr scandal’ — Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, his wife & loyalists in eye of MUDA ‘scam’ storm

Bengaluru: During his tenure as the chief minister of Karnataka — in the current term and the previous one — Siddaramaiah has rarely been faced with allegations of corruption, unlike his aides or the ministers in the government led by him, until now.The Congress leader and his wife, Parvathi, are now being accused by the Opposition of benefitting via an “illegal” compensatory land deal from Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA). The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had lost the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections and some of its seats to the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in the state, is calling it a “Rs 4,000 crore scandal” and demanding a CBI probe. CM Siddaramaiah, in response, has said that the allegations are “politically motivated”. Show Full Article ...

Concern over dilution of pro-people pieces of legislation by political establishment

Maj. Gen. (retd) Sudhir Vombatkere speaking at a panel discussion on the ‘Republic and its Discontents: Core Concerns of Our Times’, in Mysuru on Saturday, June 29. | Photo Credit: M.A. SRIRAM Expressing concern over the dilution and watering down of pro-people pieces of legislation in the country, Maj. Gen. Sudhir Vombatkere (retd.) said on Saturday, June 29, that political class cutting across party lines was guilty of it. He was speaking at a programme ‘Core concerns of our Times’ organised by Mysore Open Forum, at Wadiyar Centre for Architecture. Maj. Gen. Vombatkere, a member of the National Alliance of People’s Movement and PUCL, listed a slew of legislations passed by the Parliament such as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights)...

Prajwal Revanna’s mother Bhavani gets anticipatory bail in abduction case | Bengaluru News – Times of India

BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court on Friday granted conditional anticipatory bail to Bhavani Revanna, wife of Holenarasipura MLA HD Revanna and mother of Prajwal Revanna, accused in Karnataka sex scandal, in connection with the abduction case registered by the KR Nagara Police in Mysuru.Allowing the petition, Justice Krishna S Dixit has said that the petitioner should be at the office of the jurisdictional investigating officer ( SIT) at 1 pm on Friday and fully co-operate in the investigation process .The judge also added that in the guise of investigation, she should not be retained in the the office of the investigation officer after 5 pm.Bhavani should not hover near KR Nagar of Mysuru district and Hassan district, the judge has added while directing the warrant issued by the spec...