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Bengaluru: Builders, officials booked for encroachments

Bengaluru: Builders, officials booked for encroachments

 

On the directions of the Urban Development Department (UDD), BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad has filed cases against these officials.

 

Officials have been booked under several sections including section 192 (A) and (B) of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, Section 436 (A) of the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act, and Sections 217, 432, 434, 441, 427 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code.

 

The charges include allegations of cheating, forgery, tampering with government documents and neglecting the topography of the area as mentioned in village maps and revenue records.

 

The UDD order copy states that these officers did not mark the presence of stormwater drains while sanctioning building plans.

 

Meanwhile, the government is contemplating ways to compensate those who have lost their houses.

 

It will soon take a decision on collecting funds from defaulting builders and give the money to the people whose houses have been demolished as compensation.

 

Builders, developers booked by BMTF are:

Ansal Forte in Roopena Agrahara; EAPL Apartments (Thirumala Splendor) on Hosur Road; Avani Sringeri Layout in Nyanappanahalli near Begur; D Lakkanna and D Shantha who built a residential complex in BBMP's Bommanahalli zone; owners of survey number 61/1A of Bilekahalli Village; and developers and builders  of Shubh Enclave  near Kasavanahalli Village,  Sarjapura Road.

 

List of officials who have been booked:

SC Kari Gowda and GJ Nayak, retired town planning member of BDA; D Sathyanarayana, retired engineering member, BDA; and MN Shankar Bhat, retired law officer, BDA, have been booked for alleged violations about Ansal Forte building that has come up on survey No. 162 A of Roopena Agrahara.

 

Guruprasad, assistant engineer, BBMP; Shashidhar, additional director, town planning, BBMP; BT Mohan Krishna, deputy director, town planning, BBMP; Govindaraju, joint director, town planning (South zone), BBMP; and Chowdegowda, retired additional director, town planning, BBMP, have been booked for violations related to EAPL (Thirumala's Splendour) building on Hosur Road.

 

K Veerendranath, retired additional director of town planning, BBMP; Mohammed Abdulla Azeem, AEE, BBMP; and G Gurumurthy, AEE, BBMP, have been booked for allowing a building to come up on KJ Vivan's land (Survey No. 103) in Nyanappanahalli of Begur hobli in Bengaluru South taluk.

 

 Vijayakumar D Patil and DS Sarvothamaraju, additional directors of town planning in BBMP, have been booked for allegedly approving construction by D Lakkanna and D Shantha in Bommanahalli zone. D Shantha and others have been named owners in the FIR. BBMP superintendent engineer S Mrithyunjaya and joint director (town planning) T Nataraj have been booked for permitting illegal constructions in Bilekahalli Village of Bommanahalli zone.

 

Liakath and Gangappa, assistant executive engineers, BBMP; Sunitha, assistant engineer, BBMP; Munikrishna, chief engineer, BBMP, have been booked for allegedly allowing constructions in Shubh Enclave on a stormwater drain between Kasavanahalli and Kaikondrahalli lakes.

 

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