The particular courtroom listening to the case in opposition to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and three different elected officers over the allotment of residential land by the Mysore City Growth Authority (MUDA) on Wednesday accepted a closure report filed by the Lokayukta Police.
The courtroom additionally held that the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is investigating cash laundering facets of the MUDA rip-off, can solely intervene within the case “to a restricted extent” as a sufferer.
The Lokayukta police had filed a ‘B’ or closure report in February 2025, alleging that there was inadequate proof to substantiate corruption allegations in opposition to Mr Siddaramaiah, his spouse BM Parvati, his brother-in-law Mallikarjun Swamy and former landowner J Devaraj.
Nevertheless, the report was placed on maintain because the Lokayukta police full an investigation into bigger corruption allegations in MUDA’s land allocation. On January 13, the Lokayukta police submitted the draft closing report within the huge investigation to the courtroom.
“We hereby settle for the ‘B’ report filed by the investigating officer in opposition to accused No. 1 Shri Siddaramaiah, accused No. 2 Sumit BM Parvati, accused No. 3 Shri Mallikarjuna Swami and accused No. 4 Shri J. Devaraj,” the particular courtroom stated in its order on Wednesday.
Nevertheless, it directed the police to proceed the investigation in opposition to different suspects and directed the Lokayukta to submit a closing report on the identical.
The allegations in opposition to the CM and his household had been made by RTI activist Snehamai Krishna in a private criticism and registered as an FIR in September 2024 following sanction by Governor Tawarchand Gehlot.
Mr. Krishna claimed that Mr. Siddaramaiah’s spouse earned a revenue of Rs 56 million after receiving 14 residential plots from MUDA in 2021 in change for 3.16 acres of land. After the controversy erupted, Paravti returned 14 residential plots to MUDA.
In February 2025, after the Karnataka Lokayukta Police filed its closure report within the case, Krishna and the ED had raised comparable objections and Krishna had sought a CBI probe within the case.
The ED claimed that its investigation revealed a large-scale fraud in allotment of MUDA websites during which numerous legal guidelines, authorities orders and tips had been flouted.
Nevertheless, the ED’s summons in opposition to Parvati and Karnataka City Growth Minister BS Suresh within the matter in March 2025 was quashed by the excessive courtroom, which harassed that statements in Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) instances can’t be compelled if no incriminating materials is discovered in opposition to the people. This order was upheld by the Supreme Courtroom.
Nevertheless, the particular courtroom allowed the ED to proceed its investigation underneath PMLA within the case. Following this, the ED filed a case in opposition to former MUDA commissioner GT Dinesh Kumar in November. Kumar was first arrested by the ED in September 2025 and was taken into custody by the Lokayukta police in December.
The petitioner, Krishna, additionally sought contempt of courtroom in opposition to the investigating officer for “delays” within the investigation. The particular courtroom had set a two-month deadline for the Lokayukta to submit its closing report, which was on account of expire in December.
Nevertheless, a particular courtroom on Wednesday rejected the petition.
Judiciary Committee Report
Aside from the Lokayukta report, the judicial fee arrange by the Siddaramaiah authorities to probe allegations of corruption and maladministration within the MUDA submitted its report in September 2025, discovering no wrongdoing by the CM’s household within the case.
Nevertheless, the fee stated there have been large-scale irregularities within the functioning of MUDA through the interval 2020-2024 (which coincided with the BJP authorities) and really useful an investigation into MUDA officers and cancellation of land allotments made by the authority after March 2023, when an alternate land allotment system was launched as compensation for land acquired by MUDA.
The committee stated the system was riddled with loopholes and gave the impression to be designed to learn unlawful claimants. The sudden look of a requirement for an alternate website for the interval 2020-2024 as compensation for the true property acquired by MUDA “could also be with the intention of choosing a greater website with the help and connivance of MUDA officers and stakeholders,” the committee stated.
