BENGALURU: Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday announced that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) will be formed to investigate irregularities in land acquisition cases for the Bengaluru Development and Irrigation departments, and added that officials and lawyers found responsible would face suspension.

“We are forming an SIT to investigate irregularities in land acquisition for the Irrigation and Bengaluru Development departments. The guilty officials will be suspended,” Dy CM Shivakumar said after a review meeting at Vidhana Soudha on pending land acquisition cases in various courts.

As per the release, Shivakumar said, “We discussed the court cases about land acquisition for the Irrigation department and BDA. We reviewed a number of cases pending and the reasons for their p

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