The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Hearing on land acquisition for BDA layout posted for July 12

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Hearing on land acquisition for BDA layout posted for July 12

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday posted to July 12 appeals by several residents of Remasandra village in Kengeri hobli, Bangalore, challenging acquisition of their lands for the formation of the Visvesvaraya Layout.

The appellants, B.V. Shivaswamy and several others, said the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) issued preliminary notification on December 14, 2001, and final notification on October31, 2002 notifying their lands for acquisition for the formation of Visvesvaraya Layout and further extension of the layout.

They said on September 12, 2003, the BDA issued a gazette notification for collection of betterment charges from layouts in which revenue sites had been formed.

They said they had given representation to the BDA to denotify their lands as revenue layouts had already come up. The BDA, they said, did not respond positively.They had challenged the acquisition but a single judge had dismissed their petition. They then filed an appeal. Since there is delay of 775 days in filing an appeal (appeals have to be filed within a stipulated time), they had filed an interlocutory application (IA) for excusing the delay. A Division Bench comprising Justice V. Gopal Gowda and Justice Arali Nagaraj condoned the delay and listed the case for disposal on July 12.

Lottery appeal

A Division Bench comprising Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice A.N. Venugopal Gowda on Wednesday did not hear the appeals on the ban on lottery. Justice Venugopal Gowda said since he had appeared for the Government when the petition on lottery ban was challenged before a single judge, he was disabled from hearing the case. The Bench then asked the Registry to post the case before the Chief Justice so that it could be listed before another Bench.

Adjourned

Justice B.S. Patil on Wednesday adjourned hearing on petitions by several primary schools that had challenged the voluntary scheme and the 1994 language policy.

These schools had been asked to file affidavits in the light of the Division Bench order upholding the validity of the scheme. Justice Patil found that the affidavits filed by them earlier was defective.

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