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Relief for shop owners on CMH Road

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court, in an interim order, on Wednesday directed the authorities not to demolish seven shops adjacent to the Arya Samaja Mandir on C.M.H. Road in Indiranagar.

Justice N. Kumar passed the order on petitions by a bakery shop owner and another firm which had challenged the acquisition of its properties by the Bangalore Metro authorities.

In their petition, they said while the Metro station is slated to come up on the right side of C.M.H. Road, the parking slot for commuters using the Metro was planned on the left. They claimed that the original plan for parking adjacent to the Metro station was deliberately altered. They urged the court to stay the acquisition of their shops.

Justice N. Kumar directed the authorities not to demolish for the time being the seven shops adjacent to the Arya Samaj Mandir and adjourned further hearing on the case.

Fined

Justice N. Kumar on Wednesday dismissed a petition relating to acquisition of land with costs and a directed the land owner, Ravi, to pay each respondent Rs. 1,000.

Mr. Justice Kumar was dealing with a petition by Ravi, a land developer, seeking a direction to the authorities to evict several residents of Nagnathapura. In his petition, Ravi said his land had been acquired by the Karnataka State Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) at Nagnathapura for a factory but that some persons who had built houses had refused to vacate.

More than 80 families, belonging to poorer sections of society, had filed impleading applications before the court. They said they were living in houses constructed in the area. They claimed that sites in the layout were initially handed over their ancestors and that they had no where else to go if their lands and houses were taken away from them.

Rehabilitation complex

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice Anand Bryareddy on Wednesday directed the State Government to file a statement explaining the scheme it wanted to implement on 100 acres of land belonging to the Beggars Rehabilitation Complex on Magadi Road in Bangalore.

The Bench was dealing with several petitions challenging a notification by the Karnataka Land Army regarding the project. The Land Army had issued a notification relating to expression of interest in the project.

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