I.A. No. 4 of 2017

1. This public interest litigation is filed, opposing a proposed ‘Steel Flyover’ on the ‘Hare Krishna Road’, Bengaluru. The petitioners claim to be the residents on and around Hare Krishna Road. They have inter alia prayed for an appropriate writ and to quash Government Order in “XXX” 24.6.2017, according approval for construction of the flyover.

2. Petitioners have filed this interlocutory application, I.A.No.4/2017, praying for a direction to respondents No. 4 and 8 to stop further construction work of the ‘Steel Flyover’.

3. We have heard the learned Counsel appearing for the parties.

4. Relevant facts necessary for consideration of this interlocutory application are, by a letter dated 12.9.2014, the Commissioner, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (‘BBMP’ for short), sought for administrative and financial approval from the State Government for construction of the ‘Steel Flyover’ in question. In pursuance of a decision taken by the cabinet in it’s meeting held on 6.6.2017, the State Government accorded their approval vide Government Order dated 24.6.2017.

5. Shri Ashok B. Patil, learned Counsel for the petitioners principally urged that, the proposed constr