City Kemp News
The Karnataka High Court has restrained construction on a 31,500sq feet parcel of land earlier designated as a park in Koramangala next Flipkart on Sarjapur Service Road and sold by the BDA to a private individual.
The High Court was hearing the case filed by residents of SBI Colony and 3rd Block Koramangala against the Bangalore Development Authority, Sridhar Murthy and a real estate developer based in Kerala M/s Kayaltheeram Realtors.
The High Court stayed any construction on the site while caustically observing to the BDA counsel that “today you are selling a park. Tomorrow you will sell the High Court itself”.
Readers of City Kemp may all recall that this site was sold by the BDA to Sridhar Murthy, son of its former Chairman C Basavaiah, for Rs 1.25 lac at 3 pm and sold again for Rs 18 crores 2 hours later in August 2014 following which agitated residents had approached the court. The Chief Justice was caustic on this as well.
This land if residents are successful in winning it, can be later developed into a park and add vital lung space to Koramangala.
The PIL was filed by Ranjal Raghuram Shenoy and 11 other local residents seeking quashing of the said allotment and sale deed and agreement executed by the BDA.
The petitioners claimed that the civic amenity site was shown as reserved for park and open space in the Comprehensive Development Plan of 1995. They contended that in violation of norms, the BDA allotted the site to Murthy in 1985 and a sale deed was executed in his favour on August 1, 2014 for Rs 1,25,547. On the same day, it was sold to the Kochi builders by Murthy for Rs 18 crore.
