Bengaluru: A complaint had been lodged in Karnataka Lokayukta against Opposition leader Siddaramaiah and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra in connection with illegally taking over Rs 9,600 crore worth 1,100 acres of land in and around Bengaluru.
Sources in Lokayukta, on Friday, confirmed that the investigation had been taken up.
Bengaluru South District BJP unit president N.R. Ramesh has filed 120 separate complaints in this regard. The scandal had taken place during the tenure of the Siddaramaiah-headed Congress government. He had submitted 10 different complaints and submitted 3,728 pages of documents, 62 hours of video footage and more than 900 photographs as evidence.
The complaint states that during the Congress government (2013-18), the DLF Company, in which Robert Vadra is a partner, had swindled Rs 9,600 crore worth 1,100 acres of government land. The complaint stated that the land is located in Peddanapalya, Varturu Narasipura, Varturu, and Gangenahalli villages of Bengaluru South Taluk.
Opposition leader Siddaramaiah, Vadra, former Congress ministers from the state, K.J. George, Krishna Bhyregowda, U.T. Khader, Zameer Ahmad Khan, M.B. Patil, Dinesh Gundu Rao, MLA Krishnappa, N.A. Harris is named as the accused.
The complaint also includes the names of 21 bureaucrats, including nine senior IAS officers, and five KAS officers. The charges of corruption, misuse of power, forgery and encroachment of government land have been made against them.
The complainant N.R. Ramesh had also urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to hand over the case to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
(IANS)
