A total of 1,475 buildings, which have come up in the 17 villages notified for the Dr. Shivaram Karanth Layout being developed by the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA), have been regularised based on reports by the Justice A. V. Chandrashekhar Committee appointed by the Supreme Court.
These property owners have been sent text messages that the Supreme Court had regularised their buildings and that they would soon be issued regularisation certificates (RCs).
Most of these buildings were those developed between December 2014 — when the High Court of Karnataka quashed preliminary notification for land acquisition for the Layout — and March 2018, when the Supreme Court upheld the notification and ordered for the Layout to be developed.
“There are a total of 7,161 applications for regularisation of buildings developed on lands notified for the layout. We are adjudicating each application on a case-by-case basis and till date we have cleared 1,475 applications and based on our reports, these buildings have been regularised by the Supreme Court,” Justice Chandrashekhar said.
“We have sent SMSes to all building owners that their properties have been regularised. This has created confidence among property owners in the 17 villages,” he said.
Justice Chandrashekhar said as the committee adjudicates more applications, more buildings may be regularised. “We are categorising applications into four baskets: pre 2014, between 2014 and 2018, spillover works started before 2018, and post 2018. The Supreme Court will take a call on each of these categories of properties in the 17 villages,” he said.
The Supreme Court has also ordered 13 BDA-approved layouts and two multi-storey apartment complexes under construction not to be acquired for the Dr. Shivaram Karanth Layout. The committee has also recommended lands allotted to seven educational institutions and a Muslim burial ground.
