Mysuru Police on Sunday registered an FIR against Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for his alleged involvement in a land denotification case. Siddaramaiah, along with three others, has been accused of denotifying a land in Laxmipuram. A court had directed the police to register criminal cases and file the FIR. The other three named in the FIR are former Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) Chairmen C Basave Gowda and D Dhruvakumar and incumbent MUDA Commissioner P S Kantharaju. Right to Information activist N Gangaraju had charged Siddaramaiah and the officials of expropriating government property and denotifying 30 guntas of land. He alleged that the land was denotified at the behest of Siddaramaiah. According to the activist, the Congress leader had in 1997 purchased 10 guntas of land illegally, built a house in 1998 and sold it when he was Deputy Chief Minister of the state.The FIR against Siddaramaiah was filed under various sections of IPC, including cheating and forgery.

Mysuru Police on Sunday registered an FIR against Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for his alleged involvement in a land denotification case. Siddaramaiah, along with three others, has been accused of denotifying a land in Laxmipuram. A court had directed the police to register criminal cases and file the FIR. The other three named in the FIR are former Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) Chairmen C Basave Gowda and D Dhruvakumar and incumbent MUDA Commissioner P S Kantharaju. Right to Information activist N Gangaraju had charged Siddaramaiah and the officials of expropriating government property and denotifying 30 guntas of land. He alleged that the land was denotified at the behest of Siddaramaiah. According to the activist, the Congress leader had in 1997 purchased 10 guntas of land illegally, built a house in 1998 and sold it when he was Deputy Chief Minister of the state.The FIR against Siddaramaiah was filed under various sections of IPC, including cheating and forgery.