AMN /
Karnataka Lokayukta has filed FIRs against former State Chief Ministers B S Yeddyurappa and H D Kumaraswamy in an alleged illegal land denotification case. According to RTI documents, Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular) has been made accused number one while Yeddyurappa of the BJP accused number two in the case.Both the former Chief Ministers are accused of denotifying a prime plot to benefit Kumaraswamy’s relative.
Denotification is a process of returning government land acquired for a project to private parties. The CID had held a preliminary inquiry on the findings of a CAG report of 2012 on land denotification carried out by the successive governments from 2007-12. The CID recently submitted its report to the Lokayukta. The Lokayukta said that according to the report, the accused have prima facie played major role in denotifying huge tracts of land, causing a financial loss to the exchequer.
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.