Kannada actor Darshan Thogudeepa and owners of seven other houses in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, west Bengaluru, have been given 15 days to vacate their homes or else the buildings will be demolished for encroaching on storm water drains.
As announced earlier, the district authorities arrived at Ideal Homes Township and took possession of eight houses, 20 vacant sites, a park, two civic amenity sites and 20 guntas of government land. There was no resistance when the authorities jotted notices on the houses and at vacant sites, proclaiming government ownership. The notices asked owners to vacate the houses within 15 days or else the belongings will be thrown out and the buildings occupied.
It is learnt that Darshan continues to stay in the house but no one came out of the building when the notices were being put up. Authorities did not explain why the structures were not demolished immediately, as was the case in other parts of Bengaluru. They said that the total value of the recovered property was Rs 500 crore.
As many as 75 properties, including houses and independent sites in Ideal Homes Township and the Shamanur Shivashankarappa Hospital, have been identified as sitting on ‘B’ Kharab land (wasteland), which is prohibited under the Karnataka Land Revenue Act.
As the district authorities moved forward to take possession of the properties, the hospital management and owners of 47 houses moved the High Court of Karnataka and obtained a stay on the takeover.
Meanwhile, authorities recovered 13 acres of government land valued at Rs 43 crore elsewhere. In all, the reclaimed property value Rs 543 crore.
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