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Krishna, Gowda, Yeddyurappa face probe in expressway scam
Thursday October 25, 2012 11:10:24 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: The Karnataka Lokayukta Thursday ordered
a probe into the role of three former chief ministers H.D. Deve
Gowda, S.M. Krishna, B.S. Yeddyurappa and over 25 others for
alleged lapses in land allotment for the Bangalore-Mysore
Infrastructure Corridor.
Acting on Bangalore-based social activist T.J. Abraham's
complaint, Lokayukta court Judge N.K. Sudhindra Rao directed
police attached to his mbudsman's office to probe the role of 30
of the 105 people named in the complaint.
Others to be probed include present Public Works Department
Minister C.M. Udasi, managing director of Nandi Infrastructure
Corridor Enterprises Ashok Kheny, former Congress minister R.V.
Deshpande, Congress legislator D.K. Shivakumar, Bharat Forge chief
Baba Kalyani and former Massachusetts, US, governor William Weld.
Weld has been named in the complaint as he had in 1995 signed the
memorandum of understanding with then Karnataka chief minister
Deve Gowda for execution of the project by a consortium of Indian
and US companies.
The Rs.4,000 crore project consisting of 111-km expressway and
some townships has been mired in controversy over allegations that
the builder Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises Limited
(NICE) has been allotted land far in excess of the project's
requirement.
The complaint filed Aug 27 alleged irregularities in the
acquisition of farmers' lands for the project and wanted the court
to attach the 6,999 acres allotted for it.
Besides modern expressway between Bangalore and Mysore, the
infrastructure corridor envisages five self-sustainable townships,
each with a capacity to house a population of 100,000, and several
commercial buildings.
Krishna, of Congress, is now the union external affairs minister
while Gowda, Janata Dal-Secular leader and Lok Sabha member, was
prime minister in 1996-97. Yeddyurappa, the first Bharatiya Janata
Party chief minister in Karnataka, was forced out of office in
July last year over mining bribery charges.
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