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The High Court of Karnataka connected Friday ordered contented of announcement connected a PIL petition questioning the State government’s January 8, 2026, bid for transferring 4 acres of pristine onshore of the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University to conception further 20 quarters arsenic an annexe for the Nyaya Grama, the existing residential quarters for judges of High Court, and different 3 acres to physique a super-speciality hospital.
A Division Bench, comprising D.K. Singh and Justice T.M. Nadaf, passed the bid connected a petition filed by the Karnataka Veterinary Association, Bangalore Veterinary College Alumni Association, Senior Veterinarians Association, and Dairy Science College Alumni Association.
Cabinet decision
Pointing retired that the January 8 Government Order (GO) was issued based connected a Cabinet determination taken successful November 2025, it was contended that the determination to divert the onshore was taken without consulting the stakeholders, the varsity and its constituent colleges, who had to springiness up the onshore which different was captious for academic, probe and extension, and different activities.
The petitioners cautioned that immoderate further simplification successful field acreage of the varsity would jeopardise ongoing projects and pb to the “de-recognition” of the assemblage by the Veterinary Council of India for failing to conscionable minimum infrastructure requirements.
Dropped successful 2011
Stating that a akin connection for diverting astir 20 acres of the onshore of the assemblage for quarters for the judges was dropped successful 2011 aft a erstwhile ineligible situation and adjacent lands belonging to the Karnataka State Seeds Corporation Ltd were utilised, the petitioners urged that the onshore meant for the university’s activities indispensable beryllium preserved for its archetypal intended purposes and should not beryllium diverted.
It had been stated successful the GO that the onshore was identified for operation of quarters for judges pursuing the solution made successful the gathering held successful September 2025 betwixt the Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka and the Chief Minister.
While ordering contented of notices to the State government, the assemblage and the veterinary college, the Bench adjourned further proceeding connected the petition till March 25.
