MUDA case: High Court issues notice to CM Siddaramaiah, wife over challenge to ‘B’ report

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Mar 26, 2026: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday issued notices to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his wife B.M. Parvathi in connection with a petition filed by complainant Snehamayi Krishna, challenging the acceptance of the ‘B’ report in the MUDA alternative sites allotment case.

Justice Sunil Dutt Yadav also directed that notices be issued to the Lokayukta police, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Devaraj (the original landowner), Mallikarjuna Swamy (the Chief Minister’s brother-in-law), and G.T. Dinesh Kumar, former Commissioner of the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA).

Earlier, on January 28, 2026, the special court for MP/MLA cases had accepted the ‘B’ report, which cleared Siddaramaiah, his wife, and other accused named in the FIR. Challenging this, the complainant argued that the denotification of the land, its transfer, and the allotment of 14 compensatory sites to Parvathi were part of a single, connected sequence of actions.

He further contended that while the special court allowed investigation against MUDA officials over the same alleged irregularities, it simultaneously exonerated the key beneficiaries, thereby artificially separating what he described as a unified set of actions.

According to the complaint, 3.16 acres of land in Survey No. 464 and 37 guntas in Survey No. 462 in Kesare village, Mysuru taluk, were purchased by Mallikarjuna Swamy from the original owner Devaraj and later denotified. The land was subsequently gifted to his sister Parvathi.

It is alleged that Parvathi was later allotted 14 compensatory sites by MUDA in the upscale Vijayanagar 3rd and 4th stages of Mysuru as compensation for the land used in layout formation.