Bondu Ramaswamy vs Bangalore Development Authority

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2010 Supreme(SC) 408

D. K. JAIN, R. V. RAVEENDRAN, K. G. BALAKRISHNAN
Bondu Ramaswamy – Appellant
Versus
Bangalore Development Authority – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
Dushyant A. Dave, V. N. Lakshmi Naraina, K. K. Venugopal, Altaf Ahmed, P. Viswanatha Shetty, Sr. Advs., P. R. Ramesesh, Ms. Kiran Suri, Subramani, S. J. Smith, Girish Ananthamurthy, P. P. Singh, R. S. Hegde, Chandra Prakash, Rahul Tyagi, Ms. Savitri Pandey, Roy Abraham, Mrs. Seema Jain, Hininder Lal, S. N. Bhat, N. P. S. Panwar, D. P. Chaturvedi, D. Pavanesh, Satya Mitra, Joseph Pookkatt, Prashant Kumar, Ms. Pooja Dhar, Ms. Atrayee Majumdar, Nikhil Majithia, Saurabh Suman Sinha, Dileep Tandon, Shailesh Madiyal, Raka Bijoy Phookan, Hrishikesh Baruah, Arjun Bobde, Mahesh Agarwal, Rishi Agrawala, E. C. Agrawala, Garuav Goel, S. S. Shamshery, Pramod Kumar (for Dr. Kailash Chand), N. D. R. Ramachandra Rao, Mrs. Vaijayanthi Girish, T. V. Ratnam, K. Subba Rao, P. S. Dinesh Kumar, Naresh Kaushik, Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, B. S. Methaila, Ms. Amita Kalkal, Parag Goyal, Satish D., Kh. Nobin Singh, Nataraj R., Rajesh Mahale, Radhananda, Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, Rajesh Mahale, K. N. Manjunath, Jagjit Singh Chhabra, K. H. Soma Shekar, Prakash Kumar Singh, Ms. Priya Kasyap, Nikhil Nayyar, Ankit Singhal, Vivekananda, V. N. Raghupathy, G. V. Chandrashekar (for Ms. Anjana Chandrashekar), R. B. Phookan (for J. S. Bhatia), S. Balaji, S. Srinivasan, Ms. Madhusmita Bora, S. R. Sharma, M. A. Chinnasamy, K. Krishna Kumar, B. B. Chauhan, Sanjay Parikh, M. Qamaruddin, Mrs. M. Qamaruddin (for Ambar Qamaruddin), S. K. Kulkarni, Anukur S. Kulkarni, Nirnimesh Dube, M. Gireesh Kumar, S. J. Aristotle, Vijay Kumar, Sanjay R. Hegde, Anil K. Mishra, Vikrant Yadav, Rajesh Srivastava, Krishnan Venugopal, Shashi Kiran Shetty, Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Pradeep Kr. Bakshi, Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Advs., with them for the appearing parties.

J UDGMENT

R. V. Raveendran, J. —

Leave granted. These appeals relate to the challenge of acquisition of lands for formation of Arkavathi layout on the outskirts of Bangalore by the Bangalore Development Authority [for short ‘BDA’] under the Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976 (‘BDA Act’ or ‘Act’ for short).

2.On 2.1.2001 the Executive Engineer (North) of BDA submitted a scheme report with detailed estimates for formation of a proposed new layout in an area of 1650 acres spread over twelve villages, to be called as ‘Hennur Devanahalli Layout’. On 7.10.2002 after an initial survey, the Additional Land Acquisition Officer of BDA submitted a report proposing that 3000 acres of land in the said twelve villages and two adjoining villages (Chellakere and Kempapura) and suggested that scheme may be called as ‘Arkavathi Town or layout’ instead of ‘Hennur Devanahalli layout’. The Commissioner agreed with the proposal on 8.10.2002 and placed the matter before the Authority (that is the members constituting the Bangalore Development Authority). The Authority in its meeting held on 10.12.2002 considered the proposal and decided to issue preliminary notification under sub-sections (1) and (3)

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2010 Supreme(SC) 408

D. K. JAIN, R. V. RAVEENDRAN, K. G. BALAKRISHNANBondu Ramaswamy – AppellantVersusBangalore Development Authority – Respondent

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D. K. JAIN, R. V. RAVEENDRAN, K. G. BALAKRISHNAN
Bondu Ramaswamy – Appellant
Versus
Bangalore Development Authority – Respondent