Bengaluru: The CID which was probing a denotification case involving former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, has sent its report on the Rs 100 crore deal to the government stating that the complaint made by the former CM is false, making him liable to be booked.
A year ago, Yeddyurappa had filed a complaint asking the government to order an inquiry into what he had claimed were mysterious lines on a file purportedly signed by him. He sought the probe following a legal notice asking him reasons for de-notifying the land, measuring 11.5 acres, near Electronic City. The current government had ordered a CID probe into the case.
However, a month back, the BJP MP admitted doing it himself. CID sleuths sent the investigation report a week back with all the documents and added the ‘confession’ letter by the former CM. “As he has agreed in writing that he has done the denotification, the government can probe the case.The investigation was going against his complaint and that was the reason he gave the letter. If we probe it, the real forces behind this will get exposed,” a senior CID officer said.
The de-notification story
The prime property, located at Rupena Agrahara on Hosur Road, on the IT corridor near Electronic City, has long been a hot potato with successive governments turning down proposals for de-notification for the past 15 years. CID sources say the S M Krishna government had got this proposal, but turned it down. The Dharam Singh and H D Kumar Swamy governments toed the same line. But there was a twist in the tale in February-March 2010 when the land was suddenly de-notified. The plot worth over Rs 100 crore and measuring 11.5 acres is located in Bangalore South taluk, Begur hobli, Rupena Aghrahara village, under two survey numbers.
Thirty guntas fall under survey no. 30/6B and 11.20 acres under survey no. 31/1. The land was de-notified under Land Acquisition Act 1894; section 28(1) of the government’s notification number UDD/60/MNX/2010. This notification order was out on 07/05/2010.
In his last complaint to the then state chief secretary, Yeddyurappa had claimed he was in the dark about the de-notification case till one M Murugan and his advocate C N Govinda Reddy sent him a legal notice. Stating he had de-notified the land illegally, the notice called upon him to look into this case immediately and acquire the land back from the beneficiary.
“After getting the legal notice, I had to get the relevant documents under Right to Information Act (RTI) since I did not have any details of the case,” the former CM had said. Yeddyurappa had claimed following a thorough scan of the papers, he was shocked to see they had been modified.
