Bengaluru: Two former chief ministers, Siddaramaiah and H.D. Kumaraswamy, approached the Karnataka High Court, seeking to quash two separate denotification cases filed against them.
In the first, Mr Siddaramaiah, during his tenure as Deputy Chief Minister in 1997, had allegedly purchased 10 guntas of land in the midst of Vijayanagar 2nd Stage Layout developed by MUDA through indirect denotification, built a house and sold it in 2003. RTI activist Gangaraju filed the complaint. Following the lower court's order, the Lakshmipuram police had filed an FIR under various IPC sections.
A lower court had directed Mr Siddaramaiah and ten others to appear before it on September 23.
In the case of H.D. Kumaraswamy, a special court had issued summons against him, asking him to appear for questioning in connection with a denotification case on October 4.
Previously, the special court had rejected the B report (closure report) of the Lokayukta police in the case, where it had cited lack of evidence.
According to the complaint filed by Mr M. Mahadeva Swamy, Mr Kumaraswamy is accused of illegally denotified land in Banashankari's Halagevaderahalli village during his tenure as the chief minister. He has approached the High Court to quash the case.
