BBMP gets back land worth Rs 400 crore

By Manoj Sharma

Man loses four acres near HSR Layout after taking BBMP to court docket

The owner of a four-acre assets who had long gone to court docket over what he called encroachment through BBMP, which was once in a position to inaugurate an Indira Canteen “on his land”, has now not most effective misplaced his case, but most probably his entire four acres too. The court docket – after going through BBMP’s records all through the case – noticed that his paperwork for the land did not end up his possession, now not most effective over the disputed land, but over his entire four acres.

Meanwhile, the Indira Canteen in query is set to be inaugurated in the first week of May in Mangammanapalya, near HSR Layout.

The BBMP had built the Canteen in Ward No 190 and was once about to inaugurate when Manohar Raju, who owned the three acres adjacent to the 1 acre where the canteen and its road had been to return up, got a keep against the hole, claiming the land belonged to him.

The BBMP had constructed the canteen on Survey No 18/8 in Yellakunte Village in Bommanahalli Zone as the only acre was once registered as ‘B Kharab’ land.

Raju have been booked under the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Special Court after the Ramaswamy Committee Report alleged that encroachment of presidency land had taken place in the space. Raju, however, introduced a keep in court docket, claiming possession of the land where the Indira Canteen was once being built.

The BBMP was part of the case and in its submission offered that the entire four acres (Including his three acres) have been encroached, and the court docket was once misled.

According to BBMP’s felony mobile, Raju was once the fourth purchaser of the inam land (allocated during the British Raj as a present) but none of the earlier owners had taken up the work of grant, regrant and different essential procedures to convert this inam land to say possession.

The court docket admitted that the paperwork submitted through Raju can not end up his possession over the land and also noticed that the paperwork of the celebration to be of forgery.

The court docket on April five gave its meantime order in the topic saying that the keep at the operation of Indira Canteen and construction of road shall be right away dismissed and the BBMP may cross ahead to function the canteen in the mentioned place.

Head of the Legal Cell TH Avin told BM: “We in fact need to thank Manohar Raju for claiming the only acre of presidency land to be his assets. If he had now not introduced the keep against BBMP on this topic, we'd never have come to grasp that his three acres [were grabbed]. He is the fourth purchaser of this land and had now not executed the essential grant and regrant works of this assets and he has no considerable evidence to end up that this assets belongs to him, although he might possess many sale deeds of the property.”

About the arguments in the topic, he mentioned: “The celebration tried to mislead the court docket through submitting paperwork which can be pretend and solid. Also, in lots of pages of the records, the accused had solid the ‘B Kharab land’ as ‘A Kharab land’ to say that it's his land and he was once conscious about the issue that he has no right over the property. The topic remains to be in court docket and the trial against the land grabbing will cross on. Currently, the accused is out on bail. The court docket will pronounce its verdict later. The court docket itself was once stunned that it was once misled through the information submitted through the accused. However, as the issue is already identified, the government will quickly recover the land and hand it over to the BBMP.”

When Bangalore Mirror visited the site, we found that the land was once rented out for inventories of cement, chilly beverages, automotive and heavy vehicle garages, and parking.

Amrutha Kumari, wife of Manohar Raju, who also owns two acres of land in the similar assets, did not reply to BM’s calls.

Raju’s son KM Swaroop spoke to BM. He mentioned: “The ultimate verdict is but to be pronounced in the topic. As of now, the Land Grabbing Prohibition Special Court has most effective vacated the keep at the operation of Indira Canteen and it hasn’t allowed for the canteen to begin. We will enchantment against the order in higher court docket. The BBMP has misled the court docket, saying we now have been earning Rs 30 lakh per thirty days for the past 20 years, which is flawed. I need to explain that we're the real owners of this land and have taken the grants to convert it. Also, this order relates to only for one acre of land.”

PRIME PROPERTY

Raghavendra, a resident in the space, mentioned: “These four acres are estimated to be value about Rs 400 crore and the accused had been earning Rs 20 lakh as rent from it. We had also filed a Public Interest Litigation in the topic. This space is adjacent to 3rd Sector of HSR Layout and simply 1.five km away from Hosur Road. We do not need a clinic, public park, highschool or graveyard in our space. So, we're going to report an application earlier than the government to right away recover this land to construct elementary facilities.”

Meanwhile, Avin mentioned: “After the court docket gave us the golf green sign to function at the land, we approached the Chief Electoral Officer to permit us to begin the Indira Canteen in the mentioned place and assemble a road. We could possibly start the canteen quickly,” he mentioned.