Newly-appointed Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar got some relief on Monday when the Lokayukta court rejected a complaint against him alleging illegal denotification of government land.
The court while rejecting the complaint directed the complainant to take back the case and also fined him Rs 10,000.
It had been alleged by S M Chethan, a Bengaluru-based social activist, that Shettar had denotified 178 acres of land in 2006 which caused a loss of Rs 250 crore to the exchequer.
It was said that Shettar without the approval of the state cabinet denotified the land which was acquired to set up a farmers' market. However, the project never came up due to the denotification, Chethan had alleged.