G category sites: Karnataka High Court allows 54 more allottees to go ahead

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday permitted 54 more allottees of sites under G Category, to proceed with construction, in accordance with law. The court passed the orders after a three-member committee, appointed to probe the G category sites submitted its fifth installment of the report in relation to 60 allottees.

Following the submission of the fifth report, the High Court has directed the BDA to execute the sale deeds in favour of those 54 more allottees, where the date of execution of the lease-cum-sale agreements happened more than 10 years ago.

“Out of 60 allottees, the Committee found that 54 of them have been entitled to retain their sites. We direct the Bengaluru Development Authority to execute the sale deeds in favour of those 54 (fifty four) allottees, where 10 years are over from the date of execution of the lease-cum-sale agreements, by one month,” the court ordered.

Further, the court said in its order that with respect to those 54 allottees where 10 years is not yet over, the BDA shall execute the sale deeds after expiry of stipulated period of 10 years and  one month from the date of execution of the lease-cum-sale agreement.

In respect of the remaining six allottees, the Committee which did not make any recommendation for retention of sites due to reasons indicated in the report, the court said it shall consider their cases subsequently.

Meanwhile the court has also permitted those 54 allottees to proceed with their construction, in accordance with law. The court has adjourned the matter to April 26, 2017, for the Committee to further submit its report. The state had set up the committee to examine beneficiaries of BDA sites allotted to them under ‘G’ category on a batch of petition alleging that procedures were not followed when the sites under ‘G’ category were allotted.

A city based advocate S. Vasudeva had challenged the allotment of G category sites by BDA stating that all the allotment was illegal and against the rules and procedure of BDA. It was also in contravention of BDA site allotment rules, 1984.