FIR against Karnataka home minister, BSY

BANGALORE: Lokayukta police today filed an

FIR against Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok and former chief

minister B S Yeddyurappa on the charge of being involved in

illegal denotification of government land.FIR has also been filed against two landowners, according

to City Lokayukta SP Shiva Shankar.The action comes in the wake of Lokayukta court directing

Lokayukta police to register a case under Sec 156(3) of CrPC

against Ashok, allegedly involved in seeking denotification of

government land in violation of rules and purchasing it later.Lokayukta special court judge N K Sudhindra Rao had also

directed Lokayukta SP to investigate the matter and submit a

report on the alleged illegal denotification of government

land on November 5.RTI activist Jayakumar Hiremath had filed a complaint

accusing Ashok of being involved in illegal denotification of

government land causing an estimated Rs 50 crore loss to the

state exchequer.Hiremath alleged that the minister had secured

denotification of 9.12 guntas and 14 guntas (a gunta is 1/40

of an acre) of land belonging to Bangalore Development

Authority in Lottegollahalli when Yeddyurappa was chief

minister.Yeddyurappa, who is already in judicial custody in

connection with a private complaint on alleged denotification

of land, is the second accused in the complaint.