Mysuru, 4 Nov

Lokayukta police have summoned Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for questioning in the MUDA site allotment case on 6 November, official sources said on Monday.

They had on 25 October questioned his wife Parvathi BM, who is also an accused in the case. "We asked him to appear on Wednesday morning," a senior Lokayukta official told PTI.

The CM is facing allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).

Reacting to Lokayukta police summons, Siddaramiah, speaking to reporters in Haveri district, said: "I will go..."

Siddaramaiah, his wife, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju -- from whom Swamy had purchased a land and gifted it to Parvathi -- and others have been named in the FIR registered by the Mysuru-located Lokayukta police establishment on 27 September. Swamy and Devaraju have also deposed before the Lokayukta police.

Chief Minister on 24 October filed an appeal before the division bench of the High Court, challenging the decision of a single judge bench in connection with the MUDA site allotment case that had come as a setback to him.

The bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna had on 24 September dismissed the CM's petition challenging Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot's approval for a probe against him in the case, observing that the gubernatorial order nowhere "suffers from want of application of mind". Parvathi, meanwhile, had written to MUDA to cancel 14 sites allotted to her and the MUDA had accepted it. —PTI