The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday filed a case against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others in a money laundering case related to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) land scam.

While taking cognisance of a recent state Lokayukta FIR, the central probe agency has filed an enforcement case information report (ECIR) to book Siddaramaiah and others.

Siddaramaiah, along with his wife BM Parvathi, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy, and Devaraju — who sold land to Swamy, which was later gifted to Parvathi — have been named in an FIR registered by the Mysuru-based Lokayukta police on September 27.

The FIR was registered after a special court in Bengaluru last week directed a Lokayukta police investigation against Karnataka Chief Minister in the case.

The instructions from the special court came a day after the High Court upheld the sanction authorised by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to conduct a probe against the Chief Minister on the allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 locations to his wife by the MUDA.