On Friday, the High Court in Karnataka ordered the publication of the State Government to the Pil petition, which challenged the division of areas according to Mahadevapura to the election district of the election district into two different corporations, unlike the spirit of the government body of Bengalur (GBGA), 2024, which is primarily under the Corporations Act.
The divisional bench composed of the main judge of Vibhu Bakhru and the Justice CM Poonacha approved an order for the petition of Harish PS and Dileep Kumar R., both voters of the Mahadevapura constituency.
The petitioners argued that the division of the areas of the election district into Bengaluru South City Corporation and Bengalur East City Corporation is a direct violation of Section 26 (3) of the GBGA 2024 Act, allowing the state to “make all efforts to ensure that the Constitution of the Assembly.
Statutory duty
The statement that although this provision was expressed in terms of “best effort”, imposes a legal obligation to act reasonably, fairly and in loyalty to the legislative intention; The petitioners argued that any departure is permissible only for a demonstration of convincing necessities, supported by convincing reasons, but in the present case the distribution of areas was not based on any such justification.
The petition stressed that the election district is tremendously in the eastern corporation, and it seems that only certain areas were classified under South Corporation. In particular, Bellandur, Department 150, was divided between the two corporations and includes areas such as Haralur, Ambalipura, parts of Kaikondrahalli, Kasavanahalli, Bhovicolons, Junnasandra and parts of Dodakannalli, all of which are part of Mahadevapura.
‘Beats the goal’
The division of areas into two corporations undermines the subject of the GBGA law itself, which was enacted to ensure coordinated administration in Bengalur, the petitioners claimed that they point out that the distribution of areas would lead to administrative confusion, doubling functions and fragmentation of administration.
In addition, the petitioners would claim that the inhabitants of one election district of a single assembly would now be subjected to more administrative and political structures, which would create a national crisis and weakened the coherent political responsibility.
Published – 10 October 2025 21:10
