In a large victory for many landowners, the Karnataka High Court abolished the acquisition of several acres for the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) controversial project, as the Cardataka (KIADB) Council (KIADB) failed for these lands about 23 years after the final announcement.
Justice R. Devdas approved the order of 4 July and allowed a dose of petitions filed between 2014 and 2024 P. Manjunatha Reddy and other landowners.
Proper-landowers claimed that the acquisition process could not be maintained because the special officer for the acquisition of Kiadb (SLAO) failed to pass the prices to the date, although preliminary notifications of acquisition pursuant to Section 28 (1) of the 1966 Act were issued in 1998 and 2009.
Justice Devdas relied on the judgment, which in 2023 approved the division bench of the Supreme Court in Kiadb vs. M. Shakunthalamma, if he canceled the land, which was also announced for the BMIC project, on the basis that it was not accepted even after 11 years after the issue of the final announcement. The court also noted that the Top Court confirmed the judgment of the division on the bench in the case of ShakuntThalamma.
In the present case, the Court noted that for more than 23 years since the announcement of the acquisition of the acquisition between 1998 and 2009 was issued, and the prices have not been handed over to SLAO to this day.
“With regard to the situation of landowners who are deprived of the use and occupation of land and loses their living, this court has no choice but to observe the judgment of the divisional bench in the case of M. Shakunthalammy,” the court noted.
They pointed out that the petitioners of the Ponda claimed that their land was not part of the BMIC project, and no part of their land was used by Kiadb or the project-Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Corridor, which were not that they were not exceeding. That he claims to claim that a sexual gender was not a prevailing statement of Kiadb and more.
Although the courts previously confirmed the legality of preliminary and final notifications for obtaining these land, the court stated that the non -passing of the price was a new cause of an action for questioning the validity of land proceedings.
“Pass Awards Acewers based on the market value of land in 2019”
In the blessing for some people who lost their land for the BMIC project, the Karnataka High Court ordered Kiadba to re -present prizes for some of the land, announced his way back in 2003, for which Kiadb presented the award between 2019 and 2024 in 2003 and 2011.
Justice Devdas approved the order and destroyed the dose of petitions filed by A. Abdul Rehman Khan and others whose land was obtained for the project.
The Court approved the order and at the same time quoted the verdict of the Supreme Court in January 2025 in the case of Bernard Francis Joseph Vaz and other vs. Karnataka, in which the Top Court ordered Kiadb to give a fresh price by taking over the market value of the land that existed in 2019.
In Bernard’s case, the soil was obtained in 2003 and used for the Project Sans Passion Award. However, Kiadb presented the prize in 2019 and relied on the market value of this land in 2011.
The High Court, which refused requests against the expansion of Bernard’s case judgment on the petitioner, said that “there cannot be discrimination on the matter of determination and awarding compensation”.
Published – July 7, 2025 9:07
