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Man behind website clarifies on his venture

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The man behind the website charged with imitating the official website of Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), has said that his website is actually helping prospective property buyers.

R. Arunachalam, who has created www.probleminproperty.com, said it was launched to help people unaware of land acquisition notifications made by the BDA prior to 2000. "All these notifications and related announcements in the State gazette are in the public domain and we have only brought them to the notice of the people," he told presspersons here on Wednesday.

Lands notified by the BDA but not yet developed can present legal problems to prospective buyers. In several cases, the original owners have developed and sold such land and the buyers may face difficulties in future. "It is a different matter that some planned layouts were never developed and their ownership may be disputed," he added.

The information on his website alerted people about legal or illegal occupants of land they planned to purchase and also when and where the BDA had acquired the land, Mr. Arunachalam said. "We have taken the trouble of going through past records to list such notified land in public interest," he said.

"The website has not misled any property owner or would-be purchaser. It has helped a considerable number of people who otherwise have no access to past notifications.

If the BDA will publish all of them on the website, I am prepared to close down our website," he said.

"www.propblemsinproperty.com mostly contains notifications made by the BDA and the KIADB and those related to the green-belt notification and the IT corridor. If there are any mistakes in the lists published, they will be corrected," he said. "What we have published on our website does not amount to cyber crime by any stretch of imagination," he added.

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