MYSURU: In a shocking revelation, the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) had allotted 23 sites of 60×40 dimension to a single realtor and that too for peanuts — at Rs 3,000 per site! The allotments were made to real estate businessmand N Manjunath during the time of G T Dinesh Kumar as MUDA chairman and the sites were even registered in just five days.
The sites were allotted to Manjunath under an ‘assistance scheme’, but the documents do not mention where he had lost land. The document show that he had only paid a service fee of Rs 600 instead of Rs 5 lakh. The transactions have resulted in a loss of Rs 97 lakh per site to the government.
Documents show that Manjunath was allotted three sites measuring 60×40 ft on April 5, 2023, three sites on April 6, 2023, eight sites on April 8, 2023, and nine sites on April 9, 2023. All were of 60×40 ft dimension and allotted in Vijayanagar 3rd and 4th Stages. Each site is now valued about Rs 2 crore, those in the real estate business point out.
About a year ago, an individual named Krishna had complained to the Lokayukta police regarding the largescale corruption, along with 150 pages of documents. In his complaint, Krishna had mentioned the names of then MUDA commissioner G T Dinesh Kumar, special tahsildar Shivakumar, additional district sub-registrar Kavya and realtor Manjunath, Curiously, the Lokayukta police did not even issue notices, let alone take up investigation.
In July this year, Mysuru advocate V Ravi Kumar had written to Prime Minister Narendraa Modi regarding the ‘irregularities, corruption and tax evasion in site allotments by MUDA along with 297 pages of documents. Then MUDA commissioners Natesh and Dinesh Kumar caused a loss of over Rs 100 crore, he noted and added that black money and benami transactions had taken place, while seeking a CBI probe.