<p class="bodytext">The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner to immediately allot an alternative piece of land to a man whose plot was acquired by the BBMP for extending a graveyard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The man moved a contempt of court petition as the administration failed to allot him an alternative land on the court’s previous order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A division bench of Justices Raghavendra Chauhan and H T Narendra Prasad was hearing the contempt of court petition filed by S V Yogeshwar, a resident of Yeshwantpur.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioner stated that he had an agricultural plot in Yelahanka with a borewell. It adjoined a graveyard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He alleged that the BBMP had illegally acquired his land for extending the graveyard and had not followed the acquisition process.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioner thereafter filed a writ petition in the high court seeking directions to the deputy commissioner to allot an alternative plot to him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On July 25, 2017, the court had directed the DC to grant the land against the one acquired by the BBMP, to the complainant within a period of eight weeks. Since the order was not complied with, a contempt petition was filed by the petitioner.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Allotted dumping ground</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">However, in order to escape the punishment for contempt, the DC allotted a piece of land to the petitioner that was a garbage dumping spot, which the petitioner did not accept.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Monday, the court again observed that the deputy commissioner had failed to<br />comply with its orders to<br />grant an alternative piece of land to the petitioner immediately.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court adjourned the hearing of the case to July 10.</p>.<p class="byline">DH News Service</p>
<p class="bodytext">The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner to immediately allot an alternative piece of land to a man whose plot was acquired by the BBMP for extending a graveyard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The man moved a contempt of court petition as the administration failed to allot him an alternative land on the court’s previous order.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A division bench of Justices Raghavendra Chauhan and H T Narendra Prasad was hearing the contempt of court petition filed by S V Yogeshwar, a resident of Yeshwantpur.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioner stated that he had an agricultural plot in Yelahanka with a borewell. It adjoined a graveyard.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He alleged that the BBMP had illegally acquired his land for extending the graveyard and had not followed the acquisition process.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioner thereafter filed a writ petition in the high court seeking directions to the deputy commissioner to allot an alternative plot to him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On July 25, 2017, the court had directed the DC to grant the land against the one acquired by the BBMP, to the complainant within a period of eight weeks. Since the order was not complied with, a contempt petition was filed by the petitioner.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Allotted dumping ground</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">However, in order to escape the punishment for contempt, the DC allotted a piece of land to the petitioner that was a garbage dumping spot, which the petitioner did not accept.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Monday, the court again observed that the deputy commissioner had failed to<br />comply with its orders to<br />grant an alternative piece of land to the petitioner immediately.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court adjourned the hearing of the case to July 10.</p>.<p class="byline">DH News Service</p>