Union Heavy Industries and Steel Minister HD Kumaraswamy has urged Home Minister Amit Shah to take steps to take over investigation into the allegations against chief minister Siddaramaiah by presenting the case before courts and competent authorities, pitching for federal agencies to step in while expressing a lack of faith in the ongoing probe by the Lokayukta Police.
The CM’s family is being investigated for the alleged unlawful allotment of 14 housing plots to his wife Parvathi in Mysuru on court orders. Parvathi, however, wrote to Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) Monday night urging the authorities to cancel the allotment forthwith.
In his September 29 letter, which remains under wraps, Kumaraswamy alleged that the Lokayukta police were aligned with the Congress regime. The government, he said in his letter, had hatched a conspiracy to undermine the Governor’s office. The steel minister said he had, at a recent press conference, said that certain police officers were…