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Court seeks details on hoardings by politicians

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has asked the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to furnish details about hoardings and billboards put up across Bangalore city by political parties and party workers.

The court passed the order while dealing with three public interest litigation (PIL) petitions by A.V. Amarnathan, an advocate, B. Krishna Bhat, a resident of Bangalore, and another person, all seeking a direction to the State Government to ban bandhs and regulate and monitor strikes and processions.

During the course of the hearing, a Division Bench comprising Justice S.R. Bannurmath and Justice A.N. Venugopal Gowda was told that birthday celebrations of political leaders were also creating problems to the common man.

Hoardings to wish them installed by their followers and supporters were not only marring the beauty of Bangalore but also obstructing the view of the city’s skyline.

Several of such hoardings are unauthorised and permission from the BBMP had not been obtained, they said. Even if the BBMP permitted only a specified number of signages and hoardings, the parties pasted them on the walls and compounds of buildings and installed hoardings several times the permitted number. The Bench adjourned further hearing on the case.

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