Justice B.M. Shyam Prasad of the Karnataka High Court recently ruled that the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation authorities cannot impose a condition requiring landowners to surrender part of their lands for road widening work if they want to get an occupancy certificate (OC).
This judgement came about after Mr Venugopala Reddy and Mr K.N Srinivas from Doddakannalli, Bengaluru, filed a case against the government and the Bangalore municipality. Reddy and Srinivas wanted to develop their own land, which measures 2648.81 square meters (Khata No.455/455/25/5B) in Doddakannalli Village, Bellandur Ward, Bengaluru East.
