City court quashes B Report, asks Siddaramaiah to appear on September 23

Bengaluru: The two-decade-old land denotification case continues to haunt former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as the City Civil Court on Friday rejected the B Report filed by the police absolving him of all charges, and asked him to appear before court.

The former CM has been summoned on September 23 for further investigation into the denotification case and alleged grabbing of land at Vijayanagar in Mysuru.

The case was taken up on Friday after the complainant and RTI activist, Mr N. Gangaraju, challenged the B Report. It was Mr Gangaraju who had charged Mr Siddaramaiah and the officials of usurping a government property and denotifying it following which an FIR was filed under various sections of IPC, including unlawful buying of property (169), cheating (420) and forgery (468).