Bengaluru, April 3 -- The Karnataka High Court's Divisional Bench has granted permission for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the MUDA 50:50 sites allotment scam.

However, the probe will exclude former MUDA Commissioner Dr. D.B. Natesh while covering Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his wife B.M. Parvathi, his brother-in-law B.M. Mallikarjuna Swamy and landowner J. Devaraju.

The Bench, comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice K.V. Arvind, was hearing an ED plea seeking a stay on a Single-Judge Bench order that had quashed summons issued to Dr. Natesh.

The HC said, the issue of an interim stay is linked to the merits of the case, which has to be adjudicated after a full hearing of the case. However, it stated that th...