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The High Court of Karnataka has dismissed a PIL petition, which had alleged that the passport seva kendra situated successful Koramangala was constructed illegally connected the authorities onshore utilized arsenic a playground for respective years.
“No zonal plans person been produced by the petitioner that bespeak that the taxable onshore is simply a playground oregon an unfastened area,” said a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha portion dismissing the petition, filed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Youth, Social and Cultural Welfare Trust, Koramangala.
Allegation
It was alleged successful the petition that the land, allotted by the State authorities to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), successful 1994, was a antithetic onshore but the gathering of the passport seva kendra had been constructed connected the onshore utilized arsenic a playground. The petitioner had sought a absorption from the tribunal to instantly demolish and region the structures enactment up by the MEA.
However, the MEA pointed retired to the tribunal that determination was an mistake successful mentioning the survey fig successful the bid of allotment of onshore issued by the State authorities and the mistake was rectified successful 2023 aft noticing that the 3 acres of onshore allotted to the MEA.
The Bench besides noted that the State government, successful its 2023 order, had intelligibly mentioned the 3 acres of lands allotted to the MEA successful 10 antithetic survey numbers of Koramangala colony of Begur hobli.
Valid concern
Though the Bench recovered justification successful petitioner’s interest that unfastened lands successful the metropolis are shrinking, it said that the MEA could not beryllium interdicted from utilising the remaining vacant onshore allotted to it by the State government.
