Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s wife offers to return plots linked to land scam case
The chief minister said that he was surprised by his wife’s decision, who was ‘upset with the political conspiracy’.
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BM Parvathi, the wife of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Monday said that she was willing to return the 14 sites she had received as compensation from the Mysore Urban Development Authority, reported PTI.
This came hours after the Enforcement Directorate booked Siddaramaiah under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with an alleged land scam linked to the sites.
The alleged scam pertains to the allotment of the 14 high-value housing sites in Mysuru’s Vijaynagar area to Parvathi in 2021 by the Mysore Urban Development Authority under a state government scheme. This was allegedly done in exchange for 3.16 acres of land that she owned in another part of the city. The land was allegedly illegally acquired from Dalit families.
The case was filed based on a first information report registered by the Lokayukta police against Siddaramaiah, Parvathi, her brother Mallikarjuna Swamy and a person named Devaraju.
Swamy had allegedly bought the land from Devaraju and then gifted it to Parvathi.
In a letter to the Mysore Urban Development Authority commissioner on Monday, Parvathi said that she was allotted the 14 sites against the “usage” of her 3.16 acres of land in Kesare village in Kasaba Hobli “without even acquiring it”, according to PTI.
“I am willing to return the 14...
