Lokayukta probe into illegal mining led to B.S. Yediyurappa resigning as CM in 2011 Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah encountered a second legal setback in as many days, with the Special Court for MLAs/MPs in Bengaluru yesterday approving an investigation against him in Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) land scam. The first blow came on Tuesday,…
Mysuru: A day after the Karnataka High Court postponed the hearing on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s petition challenging the legality of Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s sanction for his prosecution in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) site scam case to Sept. 12 (Thursday), the Lokayukta has issued notices to 18 officials over allegations of improper site allocations…
Mysore/Mysuru: In an early morning shock, the Lokayukta sleuths from Bengaluru assisted by Mysuru Lokayukta Police conducted simultaneous raids on offices and houses of Mysuru District Labour Officer Chethan Kumar, following allegations of amassing wealth disproportionate to the known sources of his income, here this morning. Lokayukta sleuths arrived at Chethan’s residences in Dattagalli and…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following complaints of having assets disproportionate to known sources of income, the Lokayukta sleuths raided the house and offices of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited (CNNL) Superintending Engineer Mahesh in city this morning. Guided by Karnataka Lokayukta DGP Prashanth Kumar Thakur, IGP Subramanyeshwara Rao and Mysuru Lokayukta In-charge SP Suresh Babu, raids were conducted by…
Hunsur: Lokayukta sleuths raided the office of the Regional Transport Officer (RTO) of the town and recovered few documents that were allegedly kept in pending intentionally, yesterday. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Lokayukta SP V.J. Sajith said that raids were conducted following several complaints of documents being kept in pending with an intention to harass…
Seizes Rs. 4.10 lakh unaccounted cash Mysore/Mysuru: Lokayukta sleuths have unearthed a large scale corruption during its raid on Mysore Palace ticket counters yesterday. Following information about corruptions at the Palace entry gates and parking lot, a team of Lokayukta officials and staff raided the ticket counters of Mysore Palace during which they found Rs….
Mysore/Mysuru: A First Division Assistant (FDA), attached to the Department of Women and Child Development in Periyapatna taluk, was caught red-handed by Lokayukta personnel, while reportedly accepting bribe towards a favour at his office on Thursday. Vijay Kumar, FDA, had allegedly demanded a cut of Rs.40,000 towards issuing a tender cheque for Rs. 4 lakh…
Mysore/Mysuru: Lokayukta sleuths have caught a First Division Assistant (FDA) of the Health and Family Welfare Department while he was receiving a bribe of Rs. 50,000 from a food caterer to release the bill amount. Shivanaga, Proprietor of Vinayaka Catering, had supplied food amounting to Rs. 5,16,000 to the trainees of Health and Family Welfare…
Nanjangud: Lokayukta sleuths have trapped Nanjangud Block Education Officer (BEO) and a Special Teacher while they were accepting bribe to release the three months pending salary of a specially-abled teacher. Those trapped by the Lokayukta are BEO Shivalingaiah and Special Teacher Ramesh. They were caught red handed while receiving bribe amount of Rs. 5,000 from…
Property documents, jewellery, cash worth crores of rupees recovered Mysore/Mysuru: The Lokayukta sleuths, who conducted raids on offices, houses and farm houses of three Government officials in Mysuru and Kodagu on charges of amassing wealth disproportionate to the known sources of income yesterday, recovered jewellery, cash and property documents worth crores of rupees. The raids…
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