The High Court of Karnataka has stayed the auction of corner sites in Arkavathi Layout in the city while observing that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) “cannot act as a private real estate company to maximise the profit” by auctioning corner sites ignoring the plight of allottees, who were deprived of allotted sites in the layout due to BDA’s fault.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj passed the interim order on three separate petitions filed by T.S.S.N. Manjunath Rao, Manjula R. Shetty, and Indumathi Babu Shekar, who owned a site each in Arkavathi Layout 7th block as BDA had executed sale deeds in their favour in respect of allotted sites.
The grievance of the petitioners was that BDA, without issuing any notice to them, had utilised their sites for formation of road citing redesign of the layout, and now wanted to allot alternative sites in Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout.
