Former PM H D Deve Gowda has charged the State government with deliberate, calculated and concerted moves to hush up the fraud in the controversial Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project by not presenting the States version before the Supreme Court recently.
In a four-page, strongly-worded letter to Governor Rameshwar Thakur on Tuesday, Gowda stated: “The current dispensation was mute in the Supreme Court (on its March 25 hearing) to hush up the fraud amounting to Rs 30,000 crore...The conduct of State Advocate General during the hearing was premeditated and shocking which amounted to total sell out to NICE limited. Not once the AG opened his mouth to read out the State’s affidavit during the hearing.” By not presenting the right version of the case to the court, the Government is disassociating from the stand the previous Government had taken that it was NICE which was not willing to implement the project as per the apex court judgement, he stated.
He further charged that “any such move by the administration which is not representative of people of State will present a picture of planned conspiracy and collusion at the highest level to legitimise massive fraud by the company.”
NICE CASE POSTED TO JUNE 4
NICE counsel on Wednesday alleged that owners of certain land in Gottigere had used contempt of court proceedings to persuade the State government to drop their land’s acquisition. The allegations were made before the High Court Bench hearing a contempt case filed by two land owners, Vijayaraghavan and Sujatha, against the State Government.
Allowing NICE’s request, the Court clubbed the case with NICE’s writ petition challenging the Government order changing alignment of BMIC peripheral ring road at Gottigere. The Court however rejected its plea for early hearing of the matter before the court’s summer vacations, starting from April 21, and adjourned the case to June 4.
