After Case Against Siddaramaiah, His Wife Offers To Surrender Plots

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife BM Parvathi has written to MUDA (Mysuru Urban Development Authority), offering to return the plots of land that are at the heart of the corruption cases against her family. Earlier today, the Enforcement Directorate filed a money laundering case against the Chief Minister. 

The Central agency's case came on the heels of a First Information Report filed by the Lokayukta on the orders of a special court.

Besides Mr Siddaramaiah and his wife, his brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy, Devaraju and others have been named in the FIR registered by the Lokayukta police on September 27. Devaraju is the man from whom Mallikarjuna Swamy had purchased land and gifted it to Ms Parvathi. 

The MUDA case involves allegations of illegalities in the allotment of Mysuru's 14 premium sites to Mr Siddaramaiah's wife by the authority. It has been alleged that compensatory sites allotted to Mr Siddaramaiah's wife -- located in an upmarket area in Mysuru -- is far higher than the land acquired from her by MUDA.

Social activists have alleged that the allotment has led to a loss of Rs 45 crore to the state.