BJP fact-finding committee claims Kogilu families may include illegal migrants

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The BJP fact-finding committee   submitting its study  connected  the Kogilu Layout contented   to Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot successful  Bengaluru connected  Monday. 

The BJP fact-finding committee submitting its study connected the Kogilu Layout contented to Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot successful Bengaluru connected Monday.  | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The BJP fact-finding committee, headed by MLA for Yelahanka S.R. Vishwanath, connected the Kogilu demolition issue, expressed suspicion that galore families surviving successful Fakeer Colony and Waseem Layout were from Bangladesh, but did not supply immoderate conclusive documents to enactment its claim.

Meanwhile, a BJP delegation that met Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot connected Monday petitioned him to guarantee that alternate houses should not beryllium allotted to “encroachers” who mislaid their homes successful Kogilu.

The committee study said that though the evicted families assertion to person lived successful the country for implicit 15 years, they failed to reply the committee’s questions properly. The families besides did not nutrient due household trees, the study noted.

As a supporting papers for its assertion that the families had been surviving determination for lone 2 to 3 years, the committee attached outer images showing changes connected the onshore from 2018 onwards.

The ground of the statement is that determination is simply a mismatch betwixt the code connected the Aadhaar cards of these families and their elector IDs. “Some of them person their addresses successful and astir KGF, Tin Factory and Kogilu but look suspicious. The families person arrived from neighbouring districts and immoderate from Bangladesh and person settled here,” the study said. “These families person besides obtained ration cards utilizing fake documents. There is simply a mismatch successful each documents,” the study said.

However, determination is nary study oregon verification papers to amusement that the Aadhaar cards are duplicates. The committee said it has sent the Aadhaar details of each the families to the Unique Identification Authority of India to verify their authenticity.

The study argued that the authorities has nary ineligible proviso to allot houses to the affected families nether the Rajiv Gandhi Housing Scheme. The committee warned that doing truthful would person aboriginal implications. “Those who person encroached connected authorities onshore volition besides question rehabilitation similar this erstwhile they are asked to vacate, utilizing this incidental arsenic a precedent,” the study said.

Published - January 12, 2026 07:51 p.m. IST

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