Feb 07, 2025 11:35 AM IST
Justice M Nagaprasanna dominated that there was no proof to recommend that the continuing investigation by Lokayukta police was unfair or compromised.
The Karnataka excessive court docket on Friday refused to switch the investigation into alleged irregularities within the Mysuru City Improvement Authority (MUDA) web site allotment case, involving chief minister Siddaramaiah’s spouse Parvathi, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and mentioned the case will proceed to be dealt with by the Lokayukta police.
The Karnataka excessive court docket. (File Photograph)
Dismissing the petition searching for a CBI probe, Justice M Nagaprasanna dominated that there was no proof to recommend that the continuing investigation was unfair or compromised. “There is no malady of the kind that is projected by the apex court present in this case to refer the matter for further investigation or reinvestigation into the hands of the CBI. It is not a panacea for the projected ill,” the court docket said, including that the Lokayukta police’s inquiry confirmed no indicators of bias or inefficiency.
The plea searching for a CBI probe was filed by Mysuru-based activist Snehamayi Krishna, who argued that an impartial investigation was needed given Siddaramaiah’s place as CM. The petition contended that state companies, together with the police and the Lokayukta, couldn’t conduct an neutral probe because of the CM’s vital affect over administrative and investigative our bodies. The activist’s authorized workforce additional argued {that a} honest probe was important to sustaining public confidence within the judicial course of.
The Karnataka authorities opposed the request, asserting that transferring the probe to the CBI was unwarranted. Authorized representatives for the state identified that the Supreme Court docket had laid down particular circumstances underneath which a case could possibly be handed over to an impartial company, none of which utilized on this matter.
Showing for the state, senior advocate Kapil Sibal argued that the Lokayukta Act grants the company full authority to research a sitting chief minister. Handing over the case to the CBI, Sibal mentioned, would render the Lokayukta’s powers meaningless.
The CM’s authorized counsel highlighted that Krishna had initially sought an investigation by the Lokayukta police and later sought a CBI probe with out presenting any grounds to query the Lokayukta’s impartiality. They contended {that a} complainant doesn’t have the correct to decide on the investigating company and that an inquiry can’t be transferred solely as a result of it includes a high-ranking political determine.
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