The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Chief Commissioner of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to digitise documents of all types of properties, including old records, and give access to all the digitised documents to the officers who are empowered in law to adjudicate the complaints related to the properties.
The BBMP has to formulate a mechanism for making available the sanctioned plans, katha certificates, tax paid receipts, self-assessment forms etc. of all properties in the digital format to all officers, who are authorised to take penal action under the BBMP Act, the court said, while clarifying that such access should be only through user credentials based on user name and password, so that the records are not available to any third parties.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj issued the directions on a petition filed by Aslama Pasha, questioning an order passed against him in relation to the construction of a building on the grounds that the petitioner had failed to produce the sanctioned plan.
