MUDA case: Lokayukta Police grills retired IAS officer G Kumar Naik for 3 hours

Mysuru: In the case against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others related to Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), Lokayukta Police inquired retired IAS officer, former Mysuru DC and Raichur Congress MP G Kumar Naik at Lokayukta office in Mysuru on Saturday.

They reportedly questioned him for three hours, regarding alleged conversion of 3.16-acre agriculture land on survey number 464 of Kesare village in Mysuru taluk to non-agriculture land during his tenure as DC in Mysuru between 2002 and 2005.

As per RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna's complaint, Devaraju sold this land to B M Mallikarjuna Swamy on August 25, 2004. Further, it was converted from agricultural land to non-agriculture land. On October 6, 2010, Mallikarjuna Swamy gifted the land to his sister B M Parvathy, wife of CM.

Lokayukta Police are investigating the case, based on an FIR filed against Siddaramaiah and others, on September 27.

On September 25, a special court in Bengaluru for cases involving elected representatives directed the jurisdictional Lokayukta Police, in Mysuru, to initiate an investigation against Siddaramaiah and others on the basis of a complaint filed by Mysuru-based RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna.