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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Friday conducted raids at the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) office in connection with the alleged MUDA scam. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been named as accused in the case and is accused of raising profit from an exchange of land allotments by MUDA. Sources explained that a team of 20 officers raided the office and were verifying the documents, quoted PTI.
Raids were also conducted at the residence of accused number four, the landowner J Devaraju, and questioned him. Sources further stated that the ED will also raid the residence of CM Siddaramaiah at any time and question him and his wife Parvathy, who are the first and second accused in the MUDA scam. ALSO READ: Lawrence Bishnoi’s Life Story To Be Adapted In New Web Series Lawrence A Gangster Story | Details Inside Prasanna Kumaar, the secretary in MUDA, detailed that the team arrived at the office in the morning and questioned people present over there.
"We have been instructed to provide all information to the ED officials. The ED officials have stated that they will remain in the office till October 19. The MUDA Commissioner has instructed us to provide all details and cooperate with the ED sleuths," he stated.
#WATCH | Karnataka: A team of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials arrived at the MUDA office in Mysuru. More details awaited. pic.
twitter.com/jRCC8TxwQn Complainant Snehamayi Krishna has welcomed the raids by the ED officials. He claimed that once the ED gets hold of the documents, no one knows who will land in the prison.
He further claimed that thousands of sites were given away for violating all the rules. "This is a scam involving thousands of crores. The scam is not only about the allotment of 14 sites to the family of CM Siddaramaiah.
The land belonging to the MUDA is being shown as the land belonging to private persons, and thousands of sites were given away violating all rules," he claimed. ALSO READ: IND vs NZ 1st Test: Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan Step Up With Fighting Half-centuries, Make It Count After First-inning Ducks The complainant has claimed that the brother-in-law of CM Siddaramaiah, Mallikarjuna Swamy, purchased the lands and gifted them to his sister Parvathy, wife of CM Siddharamaiah. Siddaramaiah is the accused number one in the MUDA scam.
CM's wife Parvathy is named as the second accused in the case..
