Bengaluru: ED summons Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife, Parvathi B M, to appear on Tuesday in connection with the MUDA land allotment scam. Addl Director of Enforcement Directorate Muralikannan has asked her to submit evidence and records.
Muralikkannan said he is investigating the matter under the provisions of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002. He said he considered Parvathi’s attendance necessary to give evidence and produce records in connection with the investigation or proceeding under PMLA.
In the MUDA site allotment case, it is alleged that compensatory sites were allotted to Siddaramaiah’s wife in an upmarket area in Mysuru, which had higher property values than the location of her land, which had been “acquired” by the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
MUDA had given plots to Parvathi through the 50:50 ratio scheme as compensation for 3.16 acres of land from her, which built a residential layout. Through the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50% of the developed land to the land losers instead of undeveloped land, the same measure they had surrendered to form residential layouts.
It is alleged that Parvathi had no legal title over this 3.16 acres of land at survey number 464 of Kasare village, Kasaba hobli of Mysuru taluk. The Lokayukta and the ED are probing the matter simultaneously.
