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40 kgs silver, cash seized from ex-constable's house in MP
2 days, 7 hours ago

40 kgs silver, cash seized from ex-constable's house in MP

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhopal: Raids by the Lokayukta teams at the bungalow of former constable in state transport department Sourav Sharma here have yielded two quintals of silver bars, and Rs 2.95 crore in cash, besides seven currency note counting machines, police said on Saturday. The search in his bungalow here has also yielded silver jewelry weighing ten kg and gold worth Rs …

Sharma Bhopal
52 kg gold, Rs 10 crore cash seized from Innova abandoned in Bhopal forest
3 days, 15 hours ago

52 kg gold, Rs 10 crore cash seized from Innova abandoned in Bhopal forest

India Today  

The Income Tax Department on Friday recovered 52 kg of gold and Rs 9.86 crore in cash from an abandoned Innova car in the forests near Bhopal, the police commissioner said. So far, Rs 2.85 crore in cash has been recovered from the house and office of former RTO constable Saurabh Sharma. According to Lokayukta DSP Ravindra Singh, 60 kg …

Lokayukta Sharma Bhopal Crore Cash Saurabh Sharma Department Seized
Karnataka High Court extends Lokayukta MUDA probe report deadline till Jan 28
4 days, 15 hours ago

Karnataka High Court extends Lokayukta MUDA probe report deadline till Jan 28

India Today  

The Karnataka High Court, on Thursday, extended the deadline for Lokayukta police to submit their investigation report into the MUDA scam to January 28. The high court’s order overruled the lower high court’s December 24 deadline for Lokayukta’s progress report of their investigation into the alleged corruption in the allocation of sites by MUDA. The high court’s extension of the …

Karnataka High Court Investigation Court Lokayukta Report High
MUDA scam: Activist says aide of Siddaramaiah's wife threatened him to drop case
Trending News
5 days, 15 hours ago

MUDA scam: Activist says aide of Siddaramaiah's wife threatened him to drop case

India Today  

Snehamayi Krishna, on whose complaint a case was filed against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the Mysore Urban Development Authority site allotment scam, alleged that he was threatened and offered financial inducement to settle the case. Krishna, who is one of the complainants in the MUDA land appropriation scam in which Siddaramaiah’s wife Parvathi was given 14 sites without due …

Lokayukta Muda Siddaramaiah Krishna Harsha Parvathi
Supreme Court Expresses Disinclination To Stay Karnataka Lokayukta Investigation In DK Shivakumar Disproportionate Assets Case
1 week ago

Supreme Court Expresses Disinclination To Stay Karnataka Lokayukta Investigation In DK Shivakumar Disproportionate Assets Case

Live Law  

In pleas challenging withdrawal of consent accorded by Karnataka government for CBI to prosecute Congress leader and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar in a disproportionate assets case, the Supreme Court today expressed disinclination to pass any interim order regarding ongoing investigation by Karnataka Lokayukta.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan heard the matter, arising out of. In pleas challenging …

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Bengaluru realtor arrested for posing as Lokayukta office employee to manipulate property deal: Report
1 week ago

Bengaluru realtor arrested for posing as Lokayukta office employee to manipulate property deal: Report

Hindustan Times  

A 45-year-old real estate agent in Bengaluru has been arrested for impersonating a relative of the Upa Lokayukta and pressuring a deputy Tahsildar to prioritise property registration work. the accused, identified as Anand Kumar, was detained by Anekal police following a complaint filed by the deputy registrar of Lokayukta. According to a report by The Hindu, the accused, identified as …

Bengaluru Lokayukta Report Tahsildar Naik
Realtor arrested for faking as Lokayukta to get property registration work
Trending News
1 week ago

Realtor arrested for faking as Lokayukta to get property registration work

The Hindu  

The Anekal police have arrested a 45-year-old realtor who posing as a relative of the Upa Lokayukta threatened the deputy Tahsildar to get property registration work. Based on the complaint by the deputy registrar, Lokayukta, the Anekal police tracked down the accused and arrested Anand Kumar, charging him under assault or use criminal force to deter public servants to discharge …

Lokayukta Property Registration Tahsildar Naik
Madhya Pradesh HC Questions State For Delaying Retired Lokayukta Member's Family Pension Inspite Of Amendment Made In Rules
1 week, 4 days ago

Madhya Pradesh HC Questions State For Delaying Retired Lokayukta Member's Family Pension Inspite Of Amendment Made In Rules

Live Law  

In a plea for grant of family pension of Lokayukta members, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday questioned the State for not examining the petitioners' case in respect of amendments made to the Rules under the state Lokayukta Act, noting that the pendency of the plea could not have been a reason for not taking …

High Court Court Pension Lokayukta Family Pension Rules State
Lokayukta raids 50 places of 10 officials, recovers ₹48.55 crore
Trending News
1 week, 5 days ago

Lokayukta raids 50 places of 10 officials, recovers ₹48.55 crore

Hindustan Times  

The Lokayukta police carried out extensive raids across the state, targeting 10 government officials suspected of amassing disproportionate assets, on Tuesday. The simultaneous raids, conducted at over 50 locations in Bengaluru, Koppal, Chitradurga, Channapatna, and other areas, led to the discovery of assets worth ₹48.55 crore. The simultaneous raids, conducted at over 50 locations in Bengaluru, Koppal, Chitradurga, Channapatna, and …

Lokayukta Crore Worth Chitradurga Bengaluru Koppal 50 Places
Lokayukta conducts raids in six districts across Karnataka
1 week, 5 days ago

Lokayukta conducts raids in six districts across Karnataka

The Hindu  

The Lokayukta officials on Tuesday carried out a series of raids against ten government officials in six districts across the State. After gathering information based on the complaints, several teams conducted raids in Bengaluru, Bengaluru Rural district, Gadag, Kalaburagi, Raichur, and Chitradurga, and recovered properties and documents for verification. Officials also raided properties belonging to Sunil Kumar, District Health Officer …

Bengaluru Lokayukta State Officials District
Karnataka Lokayukta raids 10 officials, including BBMP, BESCOM, health departments
1 week, 6 days ago

Karnataka Lokayukta raids 10 officials, including BBMP, BESCOM, health departments

India Today  

The Lokayukta launched an anti-corruption operation across Karnataka early this morning, raiding residences of 10 government officials in six districts. The raids, conducted in Bengaluru, Bengaluru Rural, Gadag, Kalaburagi, Raichur, and Chitradurga, targeted officials accused of amassing disproportionate assets and misusing their positions. Officials also raided properties belonging to Sunil Kumar, district health officer in Bengaluru Rural, and Nanjundayya, an …

Bengaluru Lokayukta Officials Including Bbmp
Maternal deaths: Lokayukta police seize incrimating documents, samples of suspected fluid
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Maternal deaths: Lokayukta police seize incrimating documents, samples of suspected fluid

Deccan Chronicle  

Ballari: Acting on a suo motu case registered by the Karnataka Lokayukta regarding recent maternal deaths in Ballari, the Ballari district Lokayukta Police officials led by SP Siddaraju C conducted searches in three locations and seized documents and collected samples of the suspected fluid on Saturday. In the past one month, five maternal deaths were reported in Ballari, all involving …

Lokayukta Lokayukta Police Ballari
Fictitious Claims Of Honorarium By Persons Claiming To Be Freedom Fighter Is To Be Dealt With Sternly: Karnataka High Court
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Fictitious Claims Of Honorarium By Persons Claiming To Be Freedom Fighter Is To Be Dealt With Sternly: Karnataka High Court

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by M V Srinivasa Gowda, challenging an order passed by Deputy Commissioner, Kolar District, directing initiation of proceedings against him to recover the entire amount paid as honorarium to him under the Karnataka State Freedom Fighters Welfare Rules, 1969. A division bench of Justice S G Pandit and Justice Ramachandra D …

Karnataka Court Freedom Documents Lokayukta Complaint Scheme
MUDA case: Karnataka Congress ministers accuse ED of media leaks and attempting to influence Lokayukta probe
2 weeks, 4 days ago

MUDA case: Karnataka Congress ministers accuse ED of media leaks and attempting to influence Lokayukta probe

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka ministers on Wednesday, criticized the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly leaking details about the MUDA site allotment case to the media. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his wife Parvathi B M, his brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and others have been booked in the MUDA site allotment case registered by the Lokayukta police on the direction of a special court. What Karnataka Congress …

Investigation Lokayukta Case Pti Karnataka Minister Parameshwara
ED questions MUDA officials in site allotment scam; SLAO Manjunath quizzed for three hours
2 weeks, 4 days ago

ED questions MUDA officials in site allotment scam; SLAO Manjunath quizzed for three hours

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Officers of Directorate of Enforcement continued to question officials linked to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority scam on Wednesday, with MUDA Special Land Acquisition Officer Manjunath being quizzed for three hours. On Tuesday, Urban Development Department Secretary Deepa Cholan appeared for inquiry before the ED, and she was questioned for five hours. Meanwhile, in a key development in the …

Lokayukta Muda Rajeev Three Hours Manjunath
ED letter to Lokayukta on MUDA probe politically motivated: CM Siddaramaiah
2 weeks, 4 days ago

ED letter to Lokayukta on MUDA probe politically motivated: CM Siddaramaiah

New Indian Express  

MYSURU: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday termed the Enforcement Directorate’s letter to the Karnataka Lokayukta on MUDA probe politically motivated. In its letter, the ED observed that it found evidence of irregularities in the allotment of MUDA sites to Siddaramaiah’s wife. Siddaramaiah told reporters here that the ED wrote to the Lokayukta a day before the HC will hear his …

Lokayukta Siddaramaiah Ed Sites
ED letter to Lokayukta: What’s the motive, asks Parameshwara
Trending News
2 weeks, 4 days ago

ED letter to Lokayukta: What’s the motive, asks Parameshwara

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Wednesday alleged that the Directorate of Enforcement is trying to influence the Lokayukta probe by writing a letter to it regarding the Mysuru Urban Development Authority case against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. What was the motive behind the ED sharing information with the Lokayukta and leaking that information?” Dr Parameshwara said. Addressing the …

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Karnataka Lokayukta slams ED over media disclosure in MUDA 'scam' probe
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Karnataka Lokayukta slams ED over media disclosure in MUDA 'scam' probe

India Today  

The Enforcement Directorate’s decision to share details of the Mysore Urban Development Authority site allotment scam with the media has drawn criticism from the Karnataka Lokayukta institution, which called the move “unprofessional and unethical”. A senior Lokayukta officer expressed strong reservations about the ED’s conduct, emphasising the need for confidentiality in ongoing investigations. The ED, in a communication sent to …

Karnataka Information Lokayukta Muda Karnataka Lokayukta
Siddaramaiah slams ED’s letter to Lokayukta on Muda
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Siddaramaiah slams ED’s letter to Lokayukta on Muda

Hindustan Times  

Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday condemned the Enforcement Directorate’s letter to the Lokayukta police concerning the Mysore Urban Development Authority case and termed it “politically motivated” and aimed at prejudicing the ongoing investigation. The ED’s letter to the Lokayukta alleged irregularities in the allocation of alternative sites to Siddaramaiah’s wife, Parvathi BM, including forgery and undue influence. The central agency …

Chief Minister Lokayukta Sites Muda Siddaramaiah Letter Undue Influence
CM Siddaramaiah removed from Congress’ Hassan rally poster: Here’s what happened
2 weeks, 5 days ago

CM Siddaramaiah removed from Congress’ Hassan rally poster: Here’s what happened

Live Mint  

The Karnataka Congress has altered the intent of the major rally which is set to take place on December 5 in the Hassan district. The event which was originally intended to show support for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, will now take place under the Congress' name, as per reports. While speaking to reporters, Deputy chief minister and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee …

Congress Muda Siddaramaiah
Siddaramaiah slams ED for 'influencing judiciary' in MUDA case ahead of hearing
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Siddaramaiah slams ED for 'influencing judiciary' in MUDA case ahead of hearing

India Today  

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday, in a post on X, criticised the Enforcement Directorate for its actions in the Mysore Urban Development Authority site allotment case. Publicising this just before the hearing reflects a deliberate attempt to create prejudice and influence the judiciary’s perspective.” Using the hashtag #MisuseOfED, Siddaramaiah called the ED's move an act of political vendetta, undermining …

Court Lokayukta Siddaramaiah Muda Case
Evidence of irregularities in Siddaramaiah's wife case, says ED
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Evidence of irregularities in Siddaramaiah's wife case, says ED

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi/Bengaluru: Evidence of several irregularities have been detected in the transfer of 14 sites by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority to BM Parvathi, the wife of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, according to the ED. There was "contravention" of statutory guidelines" in the land transfer to Parvathi and evidence of "tampering", violation of office procedures, usage of "undue" favour and …

Evidence Land Lokayukta Case Influence Sites Mysuru
People might revolt against the system if corruption continues unabated, cautions Upalokayukta
3 weeks ago

People might revolt against the system if corruption continues unabated, cautions Upalokayukta

The Hindu  

Karnataka Upalokayukta B Veerappa on Monday, said corruption was more dangerous than cancer and cautioned officials that people might revolt against the system if it continued unabated. Government officials get handsome salaries and there was no need to indulge in corruption, he said in his introductory remarks during the two-day public grievances hearing programme organised at the Netravathi Auditorium on …

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Ashok seeks Lokayukta probe into deaths of lactating mothers in Ballari
3 weeks ago

Ashok seeks Lokayukta probe into deaths of lactating mothers in Ballari

The Hindu  

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashok demanded a Lokayukta probe into the recent deaths of lactating mothers in the State-run Ballari Medical College and Research Centre in Ballari. The government should take responsibility and order a Lokayukta probe,” Mr. Ashok said during his visit to BMCRC in Ballari on Sunday. “If the government does not order a Lokayukta …

Lokayukta State Ashok Ballari Lactating Mothers Lokayukta Probe