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HC notice to State on metro station

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Monday ordered issue of notices to the State Government, the Karnataka Industries Areas Development Board (KIADB) and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation limited (BMRCL) on petitions by owners of buildings in South End, Jayanagar, challenging the acquisition of their buildings for the construction of a Metro railway station.

The petitioners, Lakshmi Builders and M.A. Lakshmidevamma and several others, have questioned the legality of the notifications passed by the KIADB classifying their buildings as industrial structures and seeking to acquire them for the construction of a metro railway station.

Lakshmi Builders said they are the owners of commercial properties in South End. They said banks, insurance companies, hotels, restaurants and several offices were operating out of their five-floor building. More than 1,000 people were directly or indirectly employed in these firms. It said the KIADB had issued preliminary and final notifications, seeking to acquire the building for the construction of a metro railway station. They said the authorities had not considered the objections they had filed. They urged the court to stay the notifications.

Justice B.S. Patil ordered issue of notices to the State and other respondents and adjourned further hearing in the case.

In a similar case, M.A. Lakshmidevamma and several others have questioned the rationale of the KIADB in seeking to acquire their building on South End, Jayanagar, for the construction of a metro railway station.

They said in the earlier alignment drawn up by the BMRCL, the metro station was to come up near a hospital and a BBMP park. However, this has been arbitrarily changed.

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