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Hearing on KIADB appeal resumed

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court re-commenced after several weeks hearing on appeals by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) 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 Bangalore Urban districts and not to allot the land for industrial purposes.

The single judge had 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 said that the petition by a silk unit challenging the action of the board in seeking to take back land 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.

Aggrieved by the single judge order, the board filed an appeal on May 2, 2007 before a Vacation Bench. The Bench stayed the single judge order and posted the appeals for hearing before a regular Bench.

A Division Bench, comprising Justice S.R. Bannurmath and Justice Jawad Rahim, heard the matter, but it could not sit again as the subject allotted to it had been changed. The Chief Justice had reconstituted the Bench to hear the matter.

The appeal had come up for hearing before the Bench.

In its appeal, the board said the single judge had arbitrarily stayed the acquisition of lands. It said the single judge had no jurisdiction in passing such an order. The Bench adjourned further hearing on the case to Friday.

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