Daijiworld Media Network - Mandya (SP)

Mandya, Sep 28: RTI activist, K R Raveendra, has written to Karnataka Governor, Vajubhai Vala, seeking his permission to register case against chief minister (CM), Siddaramaiah for extending support to illegal mining.

Raveendra has said that the CM has been supporting some persons who have annexed private land owned by the lineage of Mysuru rulers at Baby Betta in Pandavapura taluk in the district and conducting illegal mining activity there. Raveendra had complained to the governor and attached copies of several documents in suspport of his allegations. A copy of the complaint was also endorsed to director general of police, Anti Corruption Bureau. Now he has sought governor's permission to file case against the CM under Prevention of Corruption Act and Indian Penal Code.

As per the landed property details of the Maharaja of Mysore, which has been signed by the secretary of union government, V P Menon and chief secretary of Mysore government,K Sinivasan, in which list of properties owned by Mysore kings has been given, 1,623 acres of land belongs to the erstwhile rulers of Mysuru state, he has claimed. He has pointed out that after donating land to the poor by the then king, in the same survey number, 601.02 hectares (1,502/5 acres) of land is mentioned as per records as owned by the Mysore kings. The RTC prepared in hand writing has been changed by crossing the word, 'Patta' and replacing it with 'government'. Patta means private property, he explained.