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The State authorities connected Thursday told the High Court of Karnataka that occupants of the present demolished amerciable sheds connected the encroached authorities onshore successful Kogilu layout are not shifting to impermanent shelters provided to them successful 4 assemblage halls and a fewer of them were coming to the shelters lone to person food.
Those who had enactment up amerciable constructions connected encroached onshore are continuing to reside successful the aforesaid onshore by putting up caller impermanent sheds, adjacent though the authorities person made arrangements for astir 240 persons successful the assemblage halls, the authorities said.
State Advocate-General K. Shashi Kiran Shetty gave this accusation to a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha, during the proceeding of a PIL petition filed by Zaiba Tabassum, 28, Rehana, 25, and Areefa Begum, 49, who were among the persons evicted from the 2 colonies.
When counsel for the petitioners claimed that determination are nary due facilities successful the assemblage halls, the A-G denied the assertion portion stating that the authorities would contiguous a video footage of the presumption of assemblage halls earlier the Bench. The A-G besides turned down the plea by the petitioners’ advocator for supplying nutrient astatine the tract of the demolished structures.
After May 2025
Earlier, the A-G said that a ample fig of amerciable impermanent sheds mushroomed station May 2025 arsenic outer images disclose that 70 of them surfaced aft then. There were nary structures successful this onshore successful 2013 arsenic it was a abandoned quarry pit connected authorities land.
Pointing retired that aft the closure of quarrying activities, the pit was utilized arsenic a landfill for municipal coagulated discarded aft it was handed implicit to the erstwhile Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike during 2014-16, Mr. Shetty said outer images amusement that a fewer impermanent structures were illegally enactment up connected this landfill, which is not suitable for quality living.
Of the full 262 amerciable sheds connected this land, 44 were built during October 2022, 47 during May 2024, and 70 during May 2025, it has been pointed retired successful the written connection filed by Bengaluru Sold Waste Management Ltd (BSWML) portion stating that remaining 101 structures had travel up betwixt 2014-2021 successful a phased mode arsenic per the outer images.
The assertion of the petitioners that residents of demolished amerciable structures were residing successful the 2 amerciable colonies for astir 30 years is blatantly false, the BSWML has stated.
“The contention of the petitioners that much than 3,000 persons belonging to “Darwes’ assemblage were dispossessed and tendered stateless is wholly false, misleading and deliberately exaggerated,” BSMWL has stated. It pointed retired that astir 167 amerciable and impermanent structures existed connected the onshore astatine the clip of carrying retired demolition driver.
‘Visited galore times’
Denying the allegation that the amerciable structures were demolished without immoderate intimation, the BSWML has said that the officials had visited these colonies aggregate times since November 2025 and cautioned the occupants of these structures.
