Housing society asked to prove BDA plan sanction

BANGALORE, DHNS:

The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Karnataka State Judicial Department Employees’ House Building Co-operative Society to produce the original layout plan submitted to the Bangalore Development Authority for obtaining its approval in the early nineties.

A division bench comprising Justice Ram Mohan Reddy and Justice H Billappa passed the order while hearing a petition filed by Judicial Layout Residents’ and Site Owners’ Association.

The Association has alleged in the petition that the office bearers of the society had sold the land reserved for civic amenities and parks by converting them into residential sites by violating the approved layout plan. Several employees of the Karnataka judiciary, including the judges of the High Court, own sites in this layout.

While pulling up the society for not producing the plan as directed earlier, the bench has also asked the society to submit details about the extent of land reserved for civic amenity purposes, parks, etc as per its original plan submitted to the BDA before 1995 and the modified plan allegedly approved by the Yelahanka city municipal council after 1995.

The court gave these directions when the counsel appearing for the society failed to clarify before the court whether the society had got its layout plan approved by the BDA or not before selling sites to its members in mid nineties.