Lokayukta court summons Katta and son on July 19

BANGALORE: The Lokayukta police have filed a chargesheet running into thousands of pages against former minister Katta Subramanya Naidu and his son Katta Jagadish, a corporator, in the multi-crore ITASCA software-KIADB land scam. All the accused have been summoned to appear in the designated Lokayukta court on July 19.Thechargesheet contains 25,000 documents and has 50,000-odd pages framing chargesagainst the father-son duo, Lokayukta police said.“It alldepends on the special court whether an arrest warrant will be issued or not.There’s a chance that the arrest can be made before the charges are framedbecause of the seriousness of the provisions of Indian Penal Code and preventionof corruption act,” said a source.The Lokayukta court had alsoissued warrants against real estate agents Jaggaiah and Venkaiah, known to beclose to the Kattas and who are said to be absconding. The main allegationagainst them was that they have acted as agents of the Kattas and forced thefarmers to sell their lands in favour of the ITASCA.The Kattas havebeen charged under various provisions of the IPC like fraud, bribery, forgery,criminal intimidation, in addition to provisions of Prevention of CorruptionAct, 1988.Along with the father-son duo, S V Srinivas, MD of ITASCAsoftware; former KIADB special land acquisition officer T P Muninarayanappa;BBMP councillor M Gopi and Bandikodigehalli gram panchayat member B K Manju havealso been named accused among others.