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In a alleviation to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, laminitis of the Art of Living Foundation, the High Court of Karnataka quashed a archetypal accusation study (FIR) registered suo motu against him by the Bengaluru Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) successful September 2025, alleging encroachment connected definite authorities onshore and a information of Rajakaluve by him and others.
“There is not adjacent an iota of allegation against the petitioner for onshore grabbing oregon encroachment... The proceedings, if permitted to continue, would go an maltreatment of the process of instrumentality against the petitioner and effect successful miscarriage of justice,” observed Justice M. Nagaprasanna portion allowing the petition filed by Mr. Shankar.
Named arsenic respondent
The BMTF appeared to person named Mr. Shankar successful the FIR solely due to the fact that helium was named arsenic a responsive successful a PIL petition, filed earlier a part seat of the Court against a existent property steadfast and others connected the contented of encroachment of authorities lands, the Court said, portion pointing retired that the FIR lacked indispensable ineligible ingredients to prolong a complaint nether Section 192A of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964.
Pointing retired that the ailment contained nary circumstantial allegations oregon overt enactment against Mr. Shankar, the Court said that registration of a transgression is simply a superior substance against immoderate national and it cannot beryllium registered without determination being immoderate prima facie material. “Prima facie worldly cannot beryllium gathered during investigation,” it added.
Backdrop of case
The backdrop of registration of the transgression was an bid passed connected September 9, 2025, by a part seat of the Court portion disposing of a PIL petition, filed successful 2023 by Chandrashekhar N. and others. The PIL had asked the authorities to instrumentality enactment arsenic per the instrumentality connected encroachment of authorities land, arsenic a study submitted to the tribunal by the tahsildar indicated encroachment of definite information of lands successful operation of an flat analyzable by a existent property steadfast and others. Though determination were nary circumstantial allegations made against Mr. Shankar, helium was named arsenic responsive number-5 successful the petition.
It was brought to the court’s announcement that Mr. Shankar neither owns immoderate spot nor is successful amerciable concern of immoderate authorities lands connected survey numbers 160, 164/1, 164/2, 150 and 137, situated astatine Kaggalipura Village, Uttarahalli Hobli, Bengaluru South taluk. The tahsildar’s study has named him successful the study connected alleged encroachments, the tribunal was informed.
