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KIADB files appeal against single judge order

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BANGALORE: The Karnataka Areas Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) on Wednesday filed an appeal against a single judge order directing it to maintain status quo on the acquisition of lands for industrial purposes in and around Bangalore city and in Bangalore Rural and Urban districts and not to allot the land.

Probe

The single judge had a few weeks ago also referred the issue of acquisitions by the KIADB to the Lokayukta for a comprehensive probe.

He had also taken to task the board for indiscriminately acquiring more than 12,000 acres of agricultural land in and around Bangalore city and Bangalore district and directed it to maintain status quo and not go ahead with acquisition proceedings.

The single judge, Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh, had reminded the board that he had earlier directed it to give a status report on March 26, 2007 on the extent of land acquired in the last five years (from 2002 to the present), lands allotted to the beneficiaries and lands that had been acquired but remained unutilised.

The single judge had said that the petition by a silk unit challenging the action of the KIADB in seeking to take back land already allotted to it was more in the nature of a public interest litigation (PIL) petition and that it needed to be heard by a Division bench. The single judge had referred the matter to the first Bench headed by the Chief Justice.

He had asked the KIADB not to go ahead with any acquisition proceedings.

Aggrieved by the single judge order, the board had decided to appeal before a Vacation Bench.

In its appeal filed before the Registry on Wednesday, the KIADB said the single judge had arbitrarily stayed the acquisition of lands.

It said the lands were acquired on behalf of the Government and it was for the industrial development of the State.

Jurisdiction

It said the single judge had no jurisdiction in passing such an order.

The KIADB urged the Division Bench to stay the single judge order in seeking a Lokayukta probe and ordering it to maintain status quo on the acquisition of the lands.

The appeal is likely to come up for hearing on Friday.

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