BANGALORE: The High Court on Monday dismissed the petition against Medical Education Minister S A Ramadas, in the agricultural land scam involving fake documents.The division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice A S Bopanna, hearing a petition by S Lokesh and Gangadarappa seeking directions to the state to initiate action officials for not taking any action against the minister in an agricultural land scam dismissed the petition that there is no proper documents to prove the their allegation.The petitioners alleged that the minister had forged documents while getting the khata done with respect of 18 acres of agricultural land in Mulalavadi village in Mysore district in the year 1993. It is said that the minister had falsely mentioned that they were residential sites and had not even paid fees for conversion of the land with the alleged involvement of local panchayat officers.“The incident came to light in an inquiry conducted by a special land acquisition officer in the year which found Ramadas guilty of using forged documents with the help of several officers. The Mysore Deputy Commissioner, based on the inquiry, had written to the housing and town planning development department to initiate action but till date no action has been taken,” petitioners state.The matter has been adjourned for further hearing.
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