Bengaluru, March 8 -- In a major relief to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife B.M. Parvathi, and Urban Development Minister Byrathi Suresh, the High Court has quashed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons issued to them in connection with the 50:50 site irregularities at the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).

Justice M. Nagaprasanna, presiding over a Single-Judge Bench, announced the order yesterday after hearing the applications filed by Parvathi and Suresh challenging the summons.

The ED is probing money laundering allegations tied to the MUDA land scam. The ED's counter was that Parvathi was the second accused in the original case - the MUDA land scam case - after the Chief Minister and that she may have received proceeds ...