Bangalore: Yeddyurappa gets HC notice

Express News

Bangalore, 02 June 2011: The High Court on Tuesday issued notices to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa for denotifying five acres and 13 guntas of land in Nagarbhavi.

 

The High Court had earlier issued notices to various departments for denotifying land, which was allotted to BDCC Bank Employees Cooperative Society after it filed a writ petition challenging the donotification. The Chief Minister was made a party to the case and the court had directed that notices be issued to all respondents. However, notice had not been served to the CM.

 

Justice D V Shylendra Kumar appreciated the petitioners for showing "exemplary courage" in making the CM party to the case.

The case

The state government had issued preliminary notification to acquire five acres and 13 guntas of land in survey number 78 of Nagarbhavi in 1982 and issued a final notification in June 1985.

 

The government took possession of the land in 1988. The lower court, High Court and Supreme Court dismissed the petitions filed by land owners challenging acquisition of their land. The government allotted the land to BDCC Bank Employees Society and the society had paid Rs 51.26 lakh for the same.

 

The land owners once again filed petitions challenging the bulk allotment of their land and all the courts dismissed their petitions.

 

The Urban Development Department denotified the land in June, 2010 on the Chief Minister’s order. The society filed a writ petition challenging the denotification and a writ mandamus requesting the court to direct the government to hand over possession of the land.

 

BDA had submitted before the court that the denotification was withdrawn on September 16, 2010, and requested the court to dispose the petition as infructuous.

 

However, the withdrawal of the denotification was not published in the official gazette. The court had held that the petition cannot be dismissed as the denotification was done for political and other considerations.