In a major relief for Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, a special Lokayukta court for legislators and MPs ordered to drop the inquiry against him in the Arkavathy Layout denotification case. The case dates back to the earlier tenure of HDK as CM in 2007.
Kumaraswamy had appealed to the court to revoke the inquiry citing lack of evidence against him in the case. He had petitioned that there was no proof that showed he had denotified the land for illegal personal gratification.
The case filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act alleged that the CM had denotified a land acquired by the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) at Thanisandra near Hennur measuring three acres and eight guntas without following proper norms and abused his powers as CM.
The court accepted the BDA and Urban Development Department’s submissions that the denotification was completed after taking permissions from all the authorities concerned to arrive at the verdict.
