The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed a notification by the state government that had denotified 33 guntas out of the total six acres 31 guntas of the land that was acquired for the formation of the 8th phase layout at JP Nagar.
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed a notification by the state government that had denotified 33 guntas out of the total six acres 31 guntas of the land that was acquired for the formation of the 8th phase layout at JP Nagar. Residents had questioned the denotification.
Koteshwar Rao and others had challenged that in the survey number 24 of the Kothnur village in Uttarahalli Hobli at Bangalore South Taluk, the entire extent of six acres 31 guntas of the land was acquired for the formation of the layout.
A preliminary notification was issued by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) on March 23, 1988. The final notification by the state government was issued on October 19, 1994. The possession of the land was taken on February 3, 1996 by BDA. On June 8, 2010, the state government denotified 33 guntas.
The court quashed the denotification on the grounds that BDA had formed the layout after taking possession of the land. Once land is transferred to BDA by the government after acquisition, the authority becomes the absolute owner of the land.
Land belonging to BDA (after acquisition) cannot be denotified, that too after the formation of a layout and allotment of sites.
Drop guv, president from H1N1 PIL: HC
The high court, while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) on Monday against government inaction in combating H1N1 epidemic, ordered that the governor and the president be deleted from the respondents’ list. The case has been adjourned to July 9.
Venkata Subbaiah Kadapa in his PIL has contended that the governments, both at the Centre and the states, were not taking any emergency steps to control the spread of H1N1 virus in the country.
Kadapa had made the prime minister, president, governor, chief minister and BBMP commissioner as respondents in his petition. The PIL came up for hearing before the division bench headed by chief justice Vikramajit Sen.
Govt asked to clarify BTM Layout’s status
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday asked the state government and the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) to verify if BTM Layout could be declared a commercial area.
The court issued the directive responding to a public interest litigation filed by renounced filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli and 14 others, challenging conversion of a piece of land granted for building a six-storey residential building for commercial purpose.
The petitioners pointed out that the whole BTM Layout was a residential area and therefore no site could be converted for commercial purpose. The government advocate contended that except eight sites, the entire stretch was a commercial area.
The court wanted the government to clarify whether it could declare the entire area as a commercial stretch. The government advocate sought time to get instructions from authorities concerned.
Kasaravalli and others challenged the conversion of a piece of land located at no. 1,021, 16th Main, 1st stage, 1st phase, at BTM Layout for commercial use.
Issue ration cards to beneficiaries: HC to state
The Karnataka High Court on Monday asked the state government to provide ration cards to all beneficiaries and file the status report in five days. Medical education minister, SA Ramdass, had requested the high court to direct the state government to issue a tentative list of beneficiaries under the BPL card scheme, and call for objections from the public before proceeding to allot the cards since the procedure was not being followed by the state.
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