FIRs against Yeddyurappa, Kumaraswamy in land denotification case

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Lokayukta on Friday

filed FIRs against former chief ministers and BJP and JDS

leaders BS Yeddyurappa and HD Kumaraswamy in an alleged

illegal land denotification case.

According to RTI documents, Kumaraswamy and Yeddyurappa

have been made, respectively, the number one and number two

accused in the case.

Both former chief ministers are accused of denotifying a

prime plot to benefit Kumaraswamy's relative.

The CID had held a preliminary inquiry on the findings of

a Comptroller and Auditor General of India report of 2012 on

land denotification carried out by the successive governments

from 2007-12 and had recently submitted its report to the

Lokayukta.

The report said the accused have prima facie played a

stellar role in denotifying huge tracts of land, causing a

financial loss to the exchequer, Lokayukta said.

The CAG had made scathing remarks against the incumbent

chief ministers between 2007 to 2012 who disregarded the well-

defined law that once the land is in possession it could not

be denotified.

The denotification of 610 acres and 16.5 acres of land

referred to in the CAG report were ordered when Kumaraswamy

and Yeddyurappa were the chief ministers and in between during

a period of Governor's rule.