Observing that a holistic approach is needed to address the menace of illegal constructions in the city, the High Court of Karnataka on Monday directed the State government and the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike to come out with a composite action plan for taking action against illegal constructions.
“Passing of order by the court would be nothing but a mere paper formality unless all the stakeholders jointly come together and prepare a composite action plan,” a division bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice M.G.S. Kamal observed.
The Bench made these observations during the hearing of a PIL petition initiated suo motu by the court in 2019 after noticing a large number of petitions filed by neighbours and residents’ welfare associations against individual illegal constructions across the city.
