<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday, asked M/s Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Ltd (NICE) to respond to the charge that they had obtained 4,285 acres of additional land for building a fifth township.</p>.<p class="bodytext">NICE is undertaking the ambitious, multi-crore, Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP).</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, asked senior advocate Abhishek M Singhvi who represents the company, to file a reply chart within two weeks to the charges made by anti-corruption activist T J Abraham.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abraham, in his arguments, contended the grounds raised by him did not arise for consideration in the writ petitions; Or decided on by the Karnataka High Court in its judgement on April 7, 2016. Singhvi countered him by maintaining that the issues were the same.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“We however feel, it would be in the fitness of things if the respondents specifically meet the ground A of the special leave petition wherein the petitioner has raised as many as 12 allegations, which according to the petitioner, were never raised earlier,” the bench said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court posted the matter for further consideration on September 5.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioner has raised questions of illegal addition of the fifth township on 4,285 acres, and another illegal increase of 1,880 acres of land acquired.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He further contended the records were manipulated to show lesser extent of government lands to allow the promoters to obtain government lands at a lease rate of Rs 10/- per annum per acre.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday, asked M/s Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Ltd (NICE) to respond to the charge that they had obtained 4,285 acres of additional land for building a fifth township.</p>.<p class="bodytext">NICE is undertaking the ambitious, multi-crore, Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP).</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, asked senior advocate Abhishek M Singhvi who represents the company, to file a reply chart within two weeks to the charges made by anti-corruption activist T J Abraham.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Abraham, in his arguments, contended the grounds raised by him did not arise for consideration in the writ petitions; Or decided on by the Karnataka High Court in its judgement on April 7, 2016. Singhvi countered him by maintaining that the issues were the same.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“We however feel, it would be in the fitness of things if the respondents specifically meet the ground A of the special leave petition wherein the petitioner has raised as many as 12 allegations, which according to the petitioner, were never raised earlier,” the bench said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court posted the matter for further consideration on September 5.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioner has raised questions of illegal addition of the fifth township on 4,285 acres, and another illegal increase of 1,880 acres of land acquired.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He further contended the records were manipulated to show lesser extent of government lands to allow the promoters to obtain government lands at a lease rate of Rs 10/- per annum per acre.</p>
