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The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has suspended an full radical of gross officials successful the Begur part of the Bengaluru South City Corporation. The unprecedented enactment was triggered by grounds that officials had issued khata certificates for plots created successful unapproved layouts. This is the GBA’s archetypal large disciplinary determination against its ain unit since it was formed.
The enquiry starring to the suspensions began aft a ailment was filed successful April 2025 by Mohan Babu. Acting connected the complaint, the GBA sought a elaborate study from the Bommanahalli Joint Commissioner. The study confirmed that officials had violated a GBA/BBMP circular issued successful October 2024, and besides Section 17 of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961, which intelligibly restricts khata issuance to layouts approved by readying bodies specified arsenic the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). The October circular had specifically banned the bifurcation of sites without pursuing readying norms, informing that specified violations effect successful gross nonaccomplishment and trim mandated unfastened spaces.
According to a elder GBA official, based connected the findings, the GBA suspended
- Shantesh, Revenue Officer successful complaint of Begur
- Narasimhulu, Assistant Revenue Officer
- Hemanth Kumar, Revenue Inspector
- Suresh, Revenue Inspector
- Balalingaraju, Second Division Assistant
- Bhaghyashree, Second Division Assistant
The enquiry concluded that the radical was progressive successful 3 abstracted amerciable actions relating to issuing ‘B’ khatas for unapproved sites.
“The archetypal usurpation progressive the instauration of 49 sites connected 1 acre and 35 guntas of onshore successful Survey Number 31/2 of Naganathapura village, developed by Sanskruti Developers. The 2nd acrophobic 27 sites carved retired connected 10.12 guntas successful Basavanapura colony by Rita Fernandes and others. The 3rd lawsuit progressive the enactment of 52 sites connected 2.11 acres successful Begur village, connected onshore belonging to Kamalamma. None of these projects had secured layout approval, pointing an effort to bypass requirements specified arsenic capable roadworthy infrastructure, unfastened spaces, and onshore relinquishment,” sources said.
The enquiry besides uncovered that the malpractice extended into the e-governance system. Some of the illegally formed sites had adjacent been issued e-khatas, showing that the integer process considered much unafraid tin inactive beryllium manipulated erstwhile officials collude. To conscionable the request that khata is present mandatory for spot registration, the suspended officials allegedly created certificates purely connected the ground of self-affidavits submitted by 128 individuals, without demanding immoderate impervious of ownership. These details were archetypal entered successful the manual register, and the irregularities came to airy lone erstwhile the officials attempted to make the corresponding entries successful the e-khata system, according to GBA officials.
