Officials of the district administration on
Wednesday demolished an illegal layout developed by three city-based builders
at Yelahanka town. It was spread across one acre and 25 guntas of government
grazing land worth Rs. 15 crore.
The encroached land is part
of the 640 acres of gomala (government grazing land) in Jarak Bande Kaval
(survey number 1). The three builders had even created land ownership records
in their names from fake documents purportedly from Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara
Palike (BBMP).
N. Nandish, Revenue
Inspector of Yelahanka division, said the builders — K.T. Kumar, K. Ramesh and
Srinivas — had formed the layout by marking sites measuring 600 sq ft each and
sold them.
“Though this is part of the
gomala land and protected by the Revenue Department, the builders had acquired
1.25 acres and got the khatas (title deeds) from BBMP by forging documents,”
said a senior official of the Revenue Department.
The Revenue Department has
registered a case against the three builders under the Land Revenue Act with
the Mahalakshmi Layout police, he said. This is not the first time the builders
have done this, said a senior revenue official. According to him, the three had
encroached the same piece of land one-and-half years ago, which was recovered
with great difficulty.
Though the department had
submitted a detailed report and got the demolition orders three months ago, it
was put on hold until Tuesday due to various reasons, said the officials,
adding that the builders tried to get political influence to stop the
demolition, but in vain.
