Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (NR)

Bangalore, July 1: Lok Ayukta Nitte Santosh Hegde told mediapersons here on Saturday, June 30 that he will send a report on Monday July, 2 to Karnataka governor T N Chaturvedi.

This report will state facts that chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and 31 other legislators did not file statements of their assets and liabilities for the year 2006 by Friday, which was the deadline.

However, he did state that he would accept the statements of assets and liabilities of the legislators in the next two months, after which the list of defaulting legislators would be published in newspapers. However, Hegde warned that "this will not shield them from action to be initiated for their failure to file the details on time,”

It is mandatory under Section 22 of the Karnataka Lok Ayukta Act, for legislators to submit details of assets and liabilities, including those of their family members, before June 30 every year.
 
The Lok Ayukta had instructed legislators to file their statements for the calendar year, January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006 by June 29.

Prominent in the list of the defaulters are Congress leaders D K Shivakumar, Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli and R Roshan Baig, Karnataka Slum Clearance Board chairman Rajendra Verma and Political Secretary to the Chief Minister Suryanarayana Reddy.

As per the Right to Information Act the other legislators mentioned in the list are Mallikarjun Sahadevappa Akki, Anjanamurthy, Chandranna G, Govindappa B G, H R Gavirayappa, Kyatasandra N Rajanna, Mallikarjun Siddaramappa Khuba, N S  Boseraju, Prakash Khandre, Rajendra Verma, Rajendran S, Ravikanth Sankarappa Patil, Sangameshwar B K, Shivashankarappa T H, Somashekar M K, T Bhagirathi Marulasiddanna Gowda, Veeranna Chandrashekaraiah Charantimath, Venkatamuniyappa B P, Venkatesh M P and Vinaya Kulkarni.

The MLCs on the list are Amatheppa M Kandakur, Basavaraj Havegeppa Patil, Blasius M D’Souza, Kattimani Ashok, Puttanna, Shankar S M and Shubhalata Vasant Asnotikar.

Only in case of Ramesh Raju M D, no action could be taken against him although he had not filed his statement due to the fact that he was no longer an MLC, clarified the Lok Ayukta. His term ended on June 20, 2007.

Moreover Hegde also informed the mediapersons that the chief minister himself had sent him a letter on Friday seeking more time to submit the details as his auditor had met with an accident. But Hegde expressed his inability to do anything in the matter, stating that he did not have the power to give him additional time in the matter.