Bengaluru, Sept 14: The Siddaramaiah government, in one stroke, denotified 1,300 acres acquired for the Dr K Shivaram Karanth Layout in March-April 2014, according to former chief minister and BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa.
Through his counsel Yeddyurpappa told High Court on Wednesday that the present the government had dropped the land acquisition to facilitate the Congress MLA from KR Puram constituency in Bengaluru, Byrathi Basavaraj, who is also a member of Bangalore Development Authority (BDA).
Senior counsel C V Nagesh, appearing for Yeddyurappa, informed the court that the present government, which has denotified 1,300 acres, is making a hue and cry about the losses to the state exchequer caused by denotification of 257 acres by the previous government.
Nagesh said that since the BDA had not issued the final notification of the land acquired to form Dr Shivaram Karanth Layout in north Bengaluru during Yeddyurappa’s tenure as chief minister, there was nothing wrong in dropping the land that was already acquired. Nagesh contended that present government failed to issue final notification, which amounts to denotifying the land.
He said the allegation that Asha Paradeshi, one of the land owners is a fictitious name created to enable the procedure of denotification of land is ‘false.’ The land owner had approached the court previously and had got an order in her favour. He said that there was no conspiracy in creating land owners and letters to enable the denotification process.
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