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3 ex-chief ministers under lens over Nice land allotment

-The Times of India

BANGALORE: A special Lokayukta court on Thursday ordered an investigation into the role of three former Karnataka chief ministers in the allocation of land to Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (Nice) for the construction of an expressway between Bangalore and Mysore.

The former CMs under the scanner are H D Deve Gowda, S M Krishna and B S Yeddyurappa.

Judge N K Sudhindra Rao ordered Lokayukta police to investigate the role of former ministers R V Deshpande and D K Shiva Kumar and Nice managing director Ashok Kheny in land allocation.

The court ordered the attachment of toll collected for the past two years from vehicles using the Peripheral Ring Road of the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC). Lokayukta police will look into the agreement between Nice and ICICI Bank.

Of 102 persons named in the complaint by social activist TJ Abraham, over 30 are named in the court order.

"Lokayukta additional director general of police HNS Rao should head a team of officers in the investigation. He will be assisted by four deputy superintendents of police. Two of the buildings owned by Nice should also be attached," the order said.

A Nice representative said: "After studying the order, we will take appropriate legal recourse in the higher courts."

The court also asked Abraham to issue a public notice to the affected parties, including those who lost their land, to facilitate collection of complete information about the project.

The complaint filed with the Lokayukta court on July 18 named three former CMs, a former law secretary who is now a sitting Karnataka high court judge and 57 IAS officials. The names of the judge and some others were deleted by the court. The hearing was adjourned to November 27.