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Plea against road widening dismissed

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions by devotees of Shankaranarayana Temple in Udupi district and 16 others challenging the acquisition of their houses and lands by the Government for widening the Malpe-Molakalmuru road.

B.S. Rao and other devotees of the temple and N. Ramachandra Kamath and 15 others, all landlords and tenants of houses, had challenged a Government notification of 2007 acquiring their houses for widening the road.

They said the action of the State in seeking to acquire their houses is flawed, arbitrary and illegal. They urged the court to quash the notification. The temple devotees said the acquisition would destroy part of the 100-year-old temple.

Advocate-General B.V. Acharya justified the acquisition and said only 14 of the 480 persons whose houses were sought to be acquired had raised objections. He said the road widening was taken up after Udupi was declared as a district.

Justice Ashok Hinchigeri dismissed the petitions.

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