High Court Karnataka High Court

Sri R Ramakrishna vs Bangalore Development Authority on 9 September, 2010

Karnataka High Court
Sri R Ramakrishna vs Bangalore Development Authority on 9 September, 2010
Author: Ram Mohan Reddy
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT. BANGALORE
DATED THIS THE 09'?" DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2010

BEFORE

THE HON'BLE MRJUSTICE RAM MOHAN   A' 

WRIT PETITION Nos.12268--76/2o1oIBD--A}' fjj  G'

BETWEEN:

1.

SR1 R. SHNA
AGED ABOUT 63 YEARS

SR1 RJAYARAM _
AGED ABOUT 61 YEARS

SR1 RSE .S." A 
AGED ABOUT59 YEARS _ j;

SRIZR.'    _
AGED A'BOU'"f541 ._ -

SR1 RQSAMPANGTRAMA-----SV»*AMY
AGED ABOUT 51, 

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« _AGED ABOUT 47 YEARS

.  MA}\j§J'{jI;<ATH
' AGED ABOUT 44 YEARS

SRL R. .KGDANDARAM
AGED. ABOUT 31 YEARS

."  R. GOPALAKRISHNA
 AGED ABOUT 39 YEARS

" ALL ARE SONS OF

LATE SRLRAMASVVAMY AND
RESEDZNG AT RAGHUVANAPALYA
ANJANAPURA POST
UTTARAHALLI HOBLI.
BANGALORE SOUTH TALUK



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BANGALORE ---- 560 062.
...PETITIONERS
[M/S.SRINIVAS AND BADRI ASSOCIATES, ADVS.)

AND

BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
TCHOWDAIAH ROAD, KUMARA PARK EAST
BANGALORE - 560 020.

REPRESENTED BY ITS COMMISSIONER

(SR1 A.D.VIJAYA, ADV. ]

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THESE PETmONs FILED  
227 OE CONSTI'I"U'I'ION OF' INDIA PRAY]?-JG TOQIIASH  
ENDORSEMENT DATED ' _ '*-3o.o1;:2.o1o_  soj2~.--o2.--'10}- = '

NO.B1:)A/s.L.A.O/A4/P.R/392/O9,lo VIEE "A}iNE2§URE--B,

ISSUED BY THE RESPONDENT...._  

‘I>E’-nT1O’Ns”‘: COMING ON FOR

PRELIMINARY H:EA_R1NO..jE>…_GR()UP THIS DAY, THE COURT
MALOE -THE 1g’OLLUWING.:u ‘

“ORDER

gjljetgtioneiilelll claim to be the owners of land

-acre each in Sy.No.29, 30 and 31 of

Raiglafuvailapalyla village, Uttarahalli Hobli, Bangalore South

zacfijuired under notification dated 22.7.1991 by the

A rlxiespoildent — Bangalore Development Authority, for short

formation of J.P.Nagar 9111 Stage layout.

Whereafterwards, BDA secured possession’ of the land on

26.5.1998. The Land Acquisition Oificer having drawn up

an award, referred the matter to the Civil Court for

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judgment when carried in W.A.No.3i0O/2003 by the

Bangalore Development Authority, a Division Bench of this
Court by order dated 18.7.2005, Anr1exure–D. dismissed the

appeal on the premise that in the absence of mate1?ial..to

establish that the writ petitioners in response togthej

under Section 9 of the Land Acquisition,_Act.’l’_had*l 9

resisted the act of taking over possession

entitled to a consideration of their application thelisaid V

Scheme. up __

4. There is considerable Vforciev-in”–~the contention of the

petition.ers’evtliat.’the§ye’.too.V> are’. entitled to the benefit of the
order of._th’e. as aflirmed by the Division

Bench.

facts of the instant petitions, there is no

A”inateflai=to._estabiish that the petitioners were put on notice

under sgacuafiis of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. or that

VVp”the.ppetitioners resisted the act of taking over possession by

_ it Even otherwise, the BDA having taken possession

% ..o.f;the land has formed the layout of sites. in that View of the

it matter. it cannot be said that the petitioners had resisted

dispossession from their lands.

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6. For the very same reasons as assigned by the

learned single judge in the order, Annexure–C, and afiirmed
by the Division Bench, AnneXure–D, these petitions deserve

to be allowed and are accordingly, allowed,’

endorsement dated 30.1.2030 (2.2.2()i0),

rejecting the petitioners’ claim for al1o’iment_o.f.

the Scheme is quashed. Respon(ientb–‘l3p1}_.s’l”‘.ypis:éypdirectédwit

consider the petitioners application in of5theV”Sché§1rie,

as expeditiously as possible, in event”w_itl’1i1?1 aiperiod of

two months.