Bengaluru: With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) opting out of the probe into some of the illegal iron ore export cases from Karnataka, the Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) on implementation of the Lokayukta Report on illegal mining is now all set to recommend handing over the same cases to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Karnataka Lokayukta Police.
This comes in the backdrop of criticism that Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who made the Lokayukta report an issue in the 2013 Assembly polls, has done little to implement it. The move also comes a day after BJP National President Amit Shah flagged off Parivartana Yatra, where he dubbed the Congress-led Government “the most corrupt in the country.” The cases pertain, for a large part, when the BJP was in power in Karnataka. The CBI that was probing cases of alleged illegal export of iron ore of more than 50,000 tonnes, had recently written to the Government saying they were closing preliminary enquiries into the cases, as they “did not find prima facie case made out to set the law in motion.”
