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Urban development department to probe Belagavi Urban Development Authority scam: Govind Karjol 
In a press conference on Thursday, Belagavi District Minister Gvind Karjol announced that the alleged scam of Belagavi Urban Development Authority (Buda) in auctioning sites will be probed by the senior officials of the Urban Development Department. Karjol instructed DC Nitesh Patil to submit a detailed report about the alleged scam within the next three days. Buda had conducted a manual auction of 112 sites at Sahyadri Nagar, Kumaraswamy Layout, and Devraj Urs Colony on March 18, 2022. This auction was held just a day after selling 101 sites at Ramtirth Nagar, Kumaraswamy Layout, and Laxmi Tekdimany Local Organizations, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had strongly protested the selling of plots through manual auction calling it illegal. According to the organizations, the manual auction had been called without circulating any public notification and the sites sold during the manual auction were at far lower rates although most of the sites were corner plots. There are also allegations that only a few bidders participated in the auction and they bid without keeping any deposit money with the authority. Since the issue has taken a political turn in the last few months, the demand for a fair