JOIN USThe complaint has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code. The Lokayukta police have been directed to submit a report on the investigation on January 18.
Chikmagalur councillor R Devi Prasad had filed a private complaint on December 15, accusing Ravi of obtaining civic amenity sites in the name of his wife, Pallavi Ravi, through fraudulent means and also obtaining multiple housing sites.
Prasad had alleged that three civic amenity sites in Chikmagalur were allotted to Anjaneya Education Society in 2007, of which Pallavi was the president and her sister Tejaswini the general secretary. The complaint alleged that the Society, which had been formed 17 years ago, had a completely different set of office bearers and had no activity recorded during those 17 years, until the Society made an application for that site for the purpose of starting a school. The complaint alleged that Ravi and others fabricated and forged documents.
In another instance, Ravi is accused of obtaining two sites from Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) in Chikmagalur. He is charged with lying that he does not own any other property. The complaint accused KHB of executing sale deeds in the name of Pallavi, even though the couple had made delayed payments for the sites and not paid the interest on it. The sites were also allotted in gross violation of rules.
According to rules, the sites should have been allotted by draw of lots. KHB overlooked pending applications for site allotment. Apart from Ravi and Pallavi, the complaint lists Tejaswini and her husband Sudarshan, Pavana Anoop, Revati Dharmapal, K N Puneet, Renuka Ramakrishna, Bhagya Eregowda, KHB Assistant Executive Engineer Siddalinga Swamy and Commissioner Lakshminarayana as accused.
5 yrs RI to traffic inspector
A traffic inspector attached to North Western Road Transport Corporation (NWRTC), caught red-handed by the Lokayukta in 2007 while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,000, has been convicted to undergo five years rigorous imprisonment.
A N Mulla was trapped following a complaint that he was demanding a bribe to allot duty and to sign the way bill. The District Sessions Court and Special Court of Belgaum has also imposed a fine of Rs 12,000. If he defaults on the fine, he will have to undergo simple imprisonment for five years.
SI in Lokayukta net
The Lokayukta police on Thursday trapped an assistant sub inspector in Bangalore, while he was accepting a bribe, following a complaint.
Ibrahim Shariff, a resident of DJ Halli had approached the Lokayukta, stating that ASI of DJ Halli police station Mahadevaiah was demanding a bribe of Rs 10,000 for not registering a case against him, in a family dispute. Following the complaint, the police laid a trap for him and arrested him along with another person, when the ASI tried to collect the money through a third person. A case has been registered with the Lokayukta police.