The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday directed the Bengaluru Improvement Authority (BDA) to provoke motion towards seven officers of the division for permitting personal corporations to encroach on authorities properties in Kodigehalli and Kotihosahalli right here and construct housing complexes on it.
The courtroom directed the Commissioner of BDA to take acceptable motion beneath division guidelines towards the erring officers. It additionally ordered motion towards the tahsildar of Yelakhanka to take away the impingement inside 15 days.
The matter was adjourned to February 2 by the division bench headed by Chief Justice PB Varale, which was listening to a public curiosity litigation filed by Ashwath Narayan, a resident of Kodigehalli. Earlier, beneath the path of the HC, the Bengaluru City Deputy Commissioner had carried out an inquiry and submitted a report back to the courtroom in a sealed envelope.
The Tahsildar of Yelahanka had additionally submitted an affidavit relating to the encroachment. Based mostly on the report and the affidavit, the HC right now directed motion to be initiated towards the involved officers.
The advocate representing the property house owners on the encroached land sought time as it could have an effect on them. The courtroom, nevertheless, directed him to take the grievance to the Tahsildar.