illegally occupied

Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

Bangalore

showcause notices

Five acres of its land at Banashankari, says the agencyTheon Tuesday served notices on nearly 150 house owners in Banashankari III Stage, V Block. This is the second attempt by theto take back over five acres of land which it claims has been illegally occupied by the residents.The BDA had made a similar attempt in 2015 and the matter went to the High Court. With no stay order preventing it, BDA has issued the show-cause notices which the residents have to reply to within 10 days. The area in question is the one behind the Kamakya film theatre on the Ring Road. The BDA notice says it had acquired hte land in 1979. “Lands in Sy.No.77/1 measuring 01 acre 28 guntas and Sy.No.77/2 measuring 03 acres, 18 guntas ofSouth Taluk, Uttarahalli Hobli, Kathriguppe Village, Bangalore, were notified for the formation of Banashankari 3rd Stage Layout vide Finally Notification No. UDD/72/MNJ/78 Dated 10.09.1979 and was issued in the Karnataka Gazette on 25.10.1979. The possession said lands were handed over to Engineering Section of BDA on 11.09.1986. Hence, you have no right over the said schedule property and that you are in unauthorised occupation of the said lands. Thus, the schedule property is a BDA acquired property. Thus you and anybody claiming under you do not get any manner of right, title or interest over the property. Hence, this notice.” (sic)The BDA came to know that it had acquired the land more than 30 years ago only recently. The agency was made a party in a dispute between two private site owners. One of them claimed ownership of a marginal land and the other claimed he had purchased it from the original land lord. The BDA realised that some 150 sites on the land it had acquired in the late 1970s and early 1980s were sold by unknown persons 30 years ago. The BDA had allowed its land to be sold by others. The Banashankari III Stage, V Block was earlier known as Krishnappa Layout and old-timers say that a person known as ‘Jackpot Krishnappa’ had formed the layout and sold the sites. No one today is really aware of the whereabouts of Krishnappa. Residents are now facing an uncertain future. Some of them hope that in view of the fact that even they were cheated, BDA would come up with a compromise formula. But with BDA issuingon Tuesday, their hopes were dashed.