Overview

• The state cabinet on Thursday endorsed Justice P.N. Desai’s one-man panel report that exonerates Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his family in the MUDA allotment matter.
• The commission held that compensatory allotments, including 14 sites given to B.M. Parvathi for 3.16 acres used by MUDA, cannot be termed illegal under long-used practices.
• The report blames MUDA’s functioning between 2020 and 2024, citing arbitrary decisions, contravention of rules, and recommends cancelling illegal allotments and prosecuting errant officials.
• It flags systemic lapses, noting 72 acres and 34 guntas used without acquisition and as many as 1,095 sites issued through office memos, and calls for clear rules and a technical review.
• Parallel processes continue as the Lokayukta earlier filed a closure report, the ED probe remains active, courts have pending petitions, and BJP leaders denounce the clean chit as deceitful.