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Fifteen days aft the demolition of implicit 150 houses and sheds deemed amerciable successful Kogilu Layout, Fakir Colony and Waseem Layout, the Yelahanka constabulary registered an FIR against 4 persons connected January 4 for allegedly selling authorities onshore and allowing unauthorised operation successful northbound Bengaluru.
According to the authorities, the demolition was carried retired to retrieve onshore belonging to the Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML), which was meant for a coagulated discarded processing unit.
Based connected a ailment filed by Santoshkumar Kaddi, technologist with the BSWML, the constabulary booked Vijay, Waseemullah Baig, Muni Anjinappa and Robin charging them nether assorted sections of Karnataka Land Revenue Act .
According to the complaint, authorities onshore measuring 14 acres and 36 guntas, which had been transferred for municipal coagulated discarded absorption purposes, was encroached upon, starring to hold successful the execution of approved infrastructure projects.
The onshore was earmarked for the operation of bio-methanisation units, adust discarded processing units, integrative discarded processing units and sanitary discarded processing units.
In 2023, tenders were floated for these projects, followed by merchandise of enactment orders.
However, during tract inspections, it was recovered that astir 4 acres of the allotted onshore had been illegally occupied by unauthorised hutments and makeshift structures. The encroachments obstructed implementation of the discarded processing projects, according to the complaint.
Following authoritative directions, a associated eviction thrust was carried retired connected December 20, 2025, by BSWML officials, the Revenue Department, and the police, with enactment from the Bengaluru North taluk administration. During the operation, astir 160 amerciable makeshift houses were removed from the site.
Inquiries revealed that Vijay, Waseem, Muni Anjinappa and Robin had allegedly taken wealth from immoderate radical and assisted successful facilitating and maintaining the unauthorised houses.
Another FIR has been filed against 5 persons for staging a protestation adjacent the demolition tract successful enactment of the radical who mislaid their homes. This, according to the ailment filed by Head Constable Shankar Naik, created a instrumentality and bid issue, and violations of a bid of the High Court of Karnataka.
