The bench comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar, Cyriac Joseph and R M Lodha adjourned the matter when it came to know that Justice Joseph had heard the matter while he was heading the Karnataka High Court.

The Supreme Court referred the matter to the chief justice to place it before another bench excluding Justice Joseph.

The bench is to hear an affidavit by the state government saying it was not prepared to give an additional 770 acres of land in and around Bangalore to project contractor Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises Limited.