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'Gowda family bent rules to acquire land'

They grabbed 82.01 acres in Hassan, says Yeddyurappas political secretary
Last Updated 30 November 2010, 19:00 IST

Addressing a press conference in Bangalore, Puttaswamy said Gowda and his family had bent rules in 12 instances to illegally acquire government and gomala land.

Puttaswamy based his allegations on a 1991 inquiry report by then Divisional Commissioner of Mysore, Shanthakumari, which went into accusations of land-grab against the Gowdas made by then Public Works Minister G Puttaswamy Gowda.

He said besides Deve Gowda, his family members, including wife Channamma, brothers H D Basave Gowda and H D Ramegowda, and son H D Revanna had illegally acquired land at Kamenahalli, Paduvalahippe, Galipurakaval, Maragowdanahalli and Chakenahalli villages of Holenarasipura taluk.

The divisional commissioner, in her inquiry report, had said that Gowda and his family members had acquired “darkhast” land in spite of possessing ancestral property, thus violating the land grant rules. Besides, part of a tankbed had been allotted illegally to the Gowda family, Puttaswamy claimed.

“Most of land granted to H D Deve Gowda or purchased by him have been transferred to other members of the joint family around the year 1986-87,” he said.

Puttaswamy said the original files pertaining to the land allotment had mysteriously disappeared from the taluk office.

The divisional commissioner had also recommended in her report that remedial measures be taken but no action had been initiated.

He demanded that the Gowda family immediately return the land to the government.

He said former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy had “used” his aunt Savithramma to purchase 21.02 acres at Kethiganahalli in Ramanagara district at throwaway prices. The land was later “gifted” to Kumaraswamy by Savithramma in 2004, he said.

Kumaraswamy, he alleged, had also purchased 46 acres, 37 guntas of land belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes in the same village in Ramanagara in contravention of the provisions of Section 79A and 63 (ceiling of land holdings) of the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961.

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(Published 30 November 2010, 19:00 IST)

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