ORAL JUDGMENT

(PER: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA)

Heard learned advocate Mr. L.M. Chidanandayya for learned advocate Mr. K.H. Somasekhara for the petitioner, learned Additional Government Advocate Smt. Niloufer Akbar for respondent Nos.1 and 2, learned advocate Smt. Abhirami S. Pillai for learned advocate Mr. S.H. Prashanth for respondent No.3 and learned advocate Mr. R. Subramanya for respondent No.4.

2. The petitioner in the present public interest petition is a former Member of Legislative Assembly who has projected himself as a social worker and who is also a complainant before the Lokayukta filed against respondent No.4-Indian Gymkhana, Bengaluru.

3. The prayers in the petition are to direct respondent No.3-the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to implement the order passed by respondent No.1-the Department of Housing and Urban Development, State of Karnataka, dated 29.09.2022 and to take back the land admeasuring 3 Acres and 13 Guntas out of 4 Acres and 21 Guntas situated at Ward No.79 (old Ward No.85), Cox Town, Millers Road, CTS No.1378.

3.1 It is the case of the petitioner that the said land was shown as park and playground in the Comprehensive De