JOIN USACB notice to BSY in denotification case
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) - Karnataka has served notices to former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and others, including former Additional Chief Secretary Subir Harisingh, to appear before its investigating officer on August 19 in the case of dropping vast tracts of land for which preliminary notification had been issued.
The anti graft agency on Thursday registered a second FIR against Yeddyurappa and others for acting in violation of rules to help private people make real estate profit.
The first FIR against the BJP leader was registered on August 10.
These FIRs are related to denotification of three acres and six guntas in Yelahanka and one acre and 19 guntas land in Yeshvanthpur.
Sources in the ACB said that real estate middlemen had obtained conversion orders and also plan sanction in respect of 78 acres and 38 guntas of land out of 257 acres and 20 guntas dropped from acquisition.
Meddling by middlemen
“When the BDA officials start survey of the land proposed for layout (formation), real estate middlemen start buying the land or enter into an agreement with the original owners. In this case, they had approached the then Chief Minister (Yeddyurappa) requesting dropping the land from acquisition before the final notification,’’ the official said.
The preliminary notification for Dr Shivaram Karanth Layout in Bengaluru north and additional north taluk was issued in December 2008.
ACB sources stated that BDA had submitted adverse reports in response to applications filed seeking denotification. Yeddyurappa (then CM) ignored the adverse reports and directed the officials to drop these lands from preliminary notification.
In September 2015, the high court termed the preliminary notification as lapsed.
DH News Service