The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom issued an interim keep final week on the conversion of a basketball courtroom at Victory Floor in Bengaluru’s Indiranagar, the one open playground within the space, into an enclosed stadium with amenities akin to parking.
This was after the Indiranagar First Stage Residents’ Welfare Affiliation moved the courtroom in opposition to the development of the stadium by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) within the fashionable playground that locals had used for many years. A division bench of Justice Mohammad Nawaz and Venkatesh Naik on Might 29 ordered a keep on development and posted the case for the following listening to on June 10.
The Indiranagar first stage RWA requested the courtroom to restrain the BBMP from continuing with the development of the stadium beneath a young award dated August 14, 2024, and a piece order dated March 21, 2025. The RWA additionally pleaded for the restoration and upkeep of the playground space of the Victory Floor.
The proposed stadium, to be constructed at an estimated price of Rs 6.5 crore, will convert the present basketball courtroom used for teaching by the Indiranagar Basketball Membership, a personal membership, right into a stadium. Regardless of protests by native residents, the state authorities proceeded with the groundbreaking ceremony for the proposed conversion of the basketball courtroom right into a stadium on the Victory Floor on Might 8. The RWA then dubbed the day of the groundbreaking ceremony a ‘black day’.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by the Karnataka chief minister’s political secretary and MLC Ok Govindaraj, who additionally introduced the federal government’s curiosity in developing the stadium. Govindaraj can also be the president of the Karnataka State Basketball Affiliation and the Karnataka Olympic Affiliation.
The basketball courtroom was walled off as a separate enclosure within the playground over three a long time in the past. An identical proposal in 2017 to transform the basketball courtroom into an indoor stadium was halted following opposition from residents and a keep order from the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom.