Following an order of the Senior Civil Judge of Kalaburagi District Court, the court bailiff seized the vehicle of the Deputy Commissioner of Kalaburagi for non-payment of compensation to a farmer who had lost his land for an irrigation project of the Karnataka Government.
The bailiff, along with the farmer and his advocate, went to the district administrative complex in the morning on February 15, and seized the vehicle. However, the vehicle was not taken out of the premises of the district administrative complex.
As per information provided by the court staff and the lawyer of the farmer, as many as 33 guntas belonging to Kallappa Bhagappa Metre, a resident of Udachan village in Afzalpur taluk of Kalaburagi district, was acquired for the Bhima Lift Irrigation project in 2007-08. As he was not satisfied with the compensation paid as per an order issued by a civil court in Afzalpur in 2012, the farmer approached the district court in Kalaburagi, which hiked the compensation amount and asked the authorities concerned to pay the amount within a stipulated time.
