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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Lokayukta police file FIR against S.M. Krishna, two other ex-CMs

Lokayukta police file FIR against S.M. Krishna, two other ex-CMs

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published Published on Dec 8, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 8, 2011
-The Hindu
 
On the orders of the Special Lokayukta Court here, the Lokayukta police on Thursday filed FIR against three former Chief Ministers as well as 11 senior civil servants of Karnataka.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, and MPs N. Dharam Singh and H.D. Kumaraswamy will be investigated by the Lokayukta police in a case in which they have been accused of complicity in the alleged multi-crore mining scam.

The investigating agency will also probe the role of one IPS and 10 IAS officers.

With this, the three former Chief Ministers join a long list of politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party who are currently being tried for corruption. The former Chief Minister, B.S. Yeddyurappa, Home Minister R. Ashok, Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani, Housing Minister V. Somanna, the former Minister, Katta Subramanya Naidu, and MLAs S. Muniraju and Y. Sampangi are facing cases of corruption in the Lokayukta Court.

Private complaint

Thursday's FIR is the result of a private complaint filed on November 29 by Abraham T.J., an RTI and Dalit activist, who alleged that policy decisions taken by Mr. Krishna between 1999 and 2004, and later by his two successors, to de-reserve forest land led to the State's mineral wealth being plundered by private companies.

On December 3, the court referred the case to the Lokayukta police for investigation. It set January 6 as the deadline for submission of the findings.

The FIR has been filed under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Forests (Conservation) Act, 1980, the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963 and the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Act, 1957.


The Hindu, 9 December, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article2699842.ece


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