Mysore Urban Development Authority to take back 14 plots from Siddaramaiah’s wife
The chief minister’s spouse, Parvathi, said she was willing to return the lands a day after the ED filed a money-laundering case against her husband.
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The Mysore Urban Development Authority on Tuesday said that it would take back 14 plots of land from Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife, Parvathi, after she volunteered to surrender them a day earlier, reported the Hindustan Times.
Parvathi said she was willing to return the plots a day after the Enforcement Directorate booked Siddaramaiah under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with an alleged land scam.
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 Enforcement Directorate filed the case based on a first information report registered by the Lokayukta police against Siddaramaiah, Parvathi, her brother Mallikarjuna Swamy and a person named Devaraju.
“The process [to recover the plots] will begin now,” Mysore Urban Development Authority Commissioner AN Raghunandan said. “I will write to the sub-registrar to initiate the cancellation [of the land deed] and discuss the next steps. Once the title deeds in Parvathi’s name are cancelled, all 14 sites of various dimensions in...
