Lokayukta raids BDA office following complaints

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Blurb- "We are scrutinising all the files. We will open all the pending cases even if it takes 12 midnight or 1 am. We will bring out everything" - Karnataka Lokayukta The Karnataka Lokayukta police on Friday raided the Bangalore Development Authority's (BDA) office here following complaints and public grievance petitions against the agency for irregularities in site allocation.

According to a senior Lokayukta officer, the teams raided the BDA office here in the morning and carried out searches in six different sections of the agency with several files being scrutinised. Later speaking to reporters, Karnataka Lokayukta Justice B S Patil said the searches were conducted following many complaints flooding the Lokayukta office.

"We will investigate the cases in a systematic way so that people should not face such problems in future. We have to investigate the previous cases and streamline things for the future," Justice Patil said. "We are scrutinising all the files. We will open all the pending cases even if it takes 12 midnight or 1 am. We will bring out everything," the Lokayukta said.

Refraining from sharing the details, Justice Patil said this was not the right time to share details and asked people to wait for the right time "We are in the process of investigation. We will not share the details. We will only tell you that our team has come and started an investigation. We will seize all the documents and conduct searches if required," he added.

According to BDA sources, there were complaints of large-scale irregularities in the BDA with regard to some layout formation, distribution of plots, land acquisition processes and denotification of the acquired land.