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Editor: NAGARAJA.M.R VOL.9 issue.22 .03/06/2015

Index :
1. Threats to Judge in Gujarath State India
2. Open Letter to Chief Minister of Punjab
3. Oppose Government Sponsored Terror Group
4. Justice Sathasivam not fit for NHRC
5. IG of Police himself copying in exams
6. Shutting down Greenpeace Threat to Free Speech
7. Revoke Bail of Salman Khan & Charge Sanjay Dutt under TADA
8. Bangalore Lottery Scam involvement of DGP & IG of Police
9. PIL Lake Encroachment & Related Issues

Retired Judge Jyotsana Yagnik Threatened; Murder Convicts Out On Bail An

Appeal to Government of Gujarath , Natioanl Human Rights Commission &
Supreme Court of India
To ,
1.Honourable Supreme Court of India , New Delhi

2.National Human Rights Commission , New Delhi

Dear Madam / Sir ,

Subject : Threats to JUDGE
The civil society organizations and concerned citizens have taken serious
note of a news report (IE May 11, 2015) about the intimidation of a retired
judge, Ms Jyotsana Yagnik, who, in her capacity as special judge had, in
August 2012, convicted former Gujarat BJP minister Maya Kodnani, former
Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and 30 others in the 2002 massacre of 97
Muslims in Naroda Patiya. Ms Yagnik has received at least 22 threat letters
since the verdict, as well as blank phone calls at her home. The 62 year old
judge has informed the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation
Team about the threats and phone calls, but instead of strengthening her
protection, the government has scaled down her security cover. The SIT
convenor and Additional DIG of Police has denied knowledge of the letters,
according to the news-report. Meanwhile convict Maya Kodnani, condemned
to life imprisonment as principal conspirator in a massacre, has been out on
bail since mid-2014, and convict Babu Bajrangi, sentenced to imprisonment
till death is now about to enjoy three months bail for medical treatment.
The Indian criminal justice system is being politically degraded with every
passing day. With regard to the violence in Gujarat in 2002, there have been
instances of several encounter-accused policemen being re-instated and
cases against them being quietly dropped. Meanwhile in Maharashtra, there
is no sign that the murderers of Narendra Dabholkar and Gobind Pansare
will ever be caught. In Bihar, the acquittals of those accused of massacring
Dalits in Shankarbigha and Bathani-tola show that the justice system is
incapable or unwilling to punish those who commit mass crimes. Now we
have an upright judge being threatened, whilst murder convicts guilty of
heinous crimes are out on bail, and suspended policemen obtain reinstatement.
An onslaught on justice is taking place in broad daylight. It is now clear that
the Modi-led government finds Indias criminal justice system and

independent judiciary to be an obstacle blocking its long-term plans. The

incidence of prejudice in the courts is nothing new - the 1984 pogrom
inaugurated a new era in the erosion of Indian justice. The NDA government
has given impetus to this process. The ideological hooligans of the so-called
Sangh parivar are convinced they are above the law. Corruption does not
merely have monetary implications. The erosion of judicial independence
taking place before our eyes is also corruption. Building trustworthy public
institutions is a prolonged process that takes decades. But they can be
destroyed very rapidly, especially when state power is used (covertly or
openly), to intimidate judges like Ms Jyotsna Yagnik.
Criminals these days feel free to physically intimidate the judiciary, and the
police appear to be treating it as a minor matter. Threatening a judge
exemplifies a fascist mentality. Politicised justice breeds hatred and despair
among its victims. Those who manipulate justice, on the other hand, are
announcing their profound contempt for the very value of justice. They are
sending all of us a sinister message justice is whatever we say it is. Let us
remind ourselves, therefore, that if justice becomes a device for
strengthening one political group at the expense of others, for eliminating
enemies and assisting allies, law will have cast off even the mask of
neutrality. If judicial decisions become predictable, this can only mean that
the judiciary has been compromised and hooliganism has entered the
working of the state at the highest levels. Only an alert public can defeat
this kind of politics.
By undermining the citizens faith in a fearless judiciary, the elimination of
law will threaten the very foundations of the democratic state. All elected
representatives should remember that the Constitution is the fundamental
statute of the Indian Union, which protects us from violent and tyrannical
behaviour by criminals and/or persons in power. If they keep silent in the
face of the ongoing sabotage of justice, our MPs and MLAs shall be
betraying their oath of office. We ask all judicial, police & IAS officials to
remember their oath of loyalty to the Indian Constitution.
In light of the above, we demand that the Gujarat government take
immediate steps to ensure Ms Jyotsana Yagniks safety, and investigate the
threats she has received. If any harm comes to this judge, the Gujarat
government and its patron at the Centre will be held responsible by public

opinion.
We call upon all democratic civil society organizations and concerned
individuals to launch a campaign to strengthen the criminal justice system
and the autonomy of the judiciary. Instances of the perversion of justice by
any party, official or civil, should be highlighted and resisted. Hereby , we
appeal to Honourable Supreme Court of India & NHRC to protect the above
judge from ruling junta.
Yours sincerely ,
Nagaraja Mysore Raghupathi ,
Editor , SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
Tags
Gujarat Pogrom

Murder Of A Young Girl In Moga: An Open Letter To Chief Minister Of Punjab

By Daljit Ami

Chief Minister Prakash Singh,

You would have already noticed that I did not start this letter with prefixes
and suffixes to your name. This convention is contrary to how you speak to
those who want to contact you. Yes, this letter intends to break the
hegemony of language you impose on the people of Punjab. Your manner of
speech and attitude is such that when you use forms of addresses such as,
'Kaka', 'Sardar ji', 'Bibi', and 'Sahib',they lose their meaning. You use these
expressions to trivialise issues and demean those who wish to talk to you.
When you utter them, these addresses become sophisticated ways to
silence those who wish to talk to you. If these ways of addressing are

meaningless then who is writing this letter? To whom is this letter being
addressed? A Punjabi Indian is writing this letter to the chief minister of
Punjab. After the politics that has taken place over the Punjabi identity, it is
important to underline that this letter does not care if Shiromani Akali Dal is
Punjabi or not. It also does not care that the 'Sikh' politics considers both:
the Punjabi identity as an insult and that under your leadership the
Shiromani Akali Dal is 'not Sikh but Punjabi'. Your being a Sikh or a Punjabi
should not affect your way of working. That is why the questions that the
people can raise about you being a Sikh can also be raised about you being
a Punjabi. Without entering the debate on Punjab's boundaries, this letter is
a right that a person has earned upon being comfortable with the identity of
being a Punjabi. At this time you are the chief minister of one part of Punjab
and so I am writing this letter to you. This is a letter from a Punjabi citizen.
There is no spacehere for the kind of addressing each other that your style
imposes us - the people of Punjab. This letter is an attempt on the part of
Punjabi people to steal back the meaning of words that you have
appropriated from us.
The reason for writing this letter is the recent incident near Moga where a
young girl was murdered when she was thrown out of a running bus. The
victim's mother is lying injured in a hospital. Per newspapers and television
reports,upon the statements by representatives of your government, the girl
was a minor and was travelling with her mother and brother. There was an
altercation between bus conductor and the mother over the bus fare and
after that the employees,along with another accomplice,misbehaved with
the mother and daughter. The employees and accomplice threw both
mother and daughter off the bus. The daughter's corpse reached the
hospital.The hospital admitted the mother for treatment. All this happened
in daylight hours. In this letter we shall talk about this one murder, this one
intent to murder, and the molestation. All of these have a direct relation
with you.
Upon reading the beginning of this letter you would respond that the
government has compensated the victimized family. It has also promised
them a job. The police have apprehended the criminals. With a sense of
being able to do justice to the family, the government has accomplished
everything quickly. There is no doubt that after this murder you andyour
ministers, officers and political advisors would condemn the incident in one

voice. Your performance until now is evidence that you would use
compensation, employment and 'meeting the aggrieved' as your standard
tactics to assuage grievances. If there was a doubt about your 'sensitivity'
then what was the need to write this letter? You can also ask that when the
aggrieved family has compromised, what is the need to dig up this matter.
Your public relations department is ready to condemn this letter as
politically moticated or maybe they do not even need to do that. Both these
issues must be addressed right here. First, an ordinary citizen is writing this
to the chief minister of Punjab. The murdered minor too was a citizen. Her
parents too are citizens. That way this letter becomes a letter by a citizen
about a murdered citizen to the chief minister. Second, the politics of this
letter is clear from the fact that a citizen is a political identity and a
citizen's relationship with a chief minister is only political and nothing else.
Every conversation between a citizen and a chief minister is political. This
letter is political.
In this case of molestation and murder we must consider the thinking of
both the owners and the employees of the bus. Your son is the owner of the
bus and bus company. Your son is also the deputy chief minister and the defacto leader of the party as well as government. He is also the home
minister. Your government projects his buses as their own achievement. Yes,
you have recently made a statement that you personally have nothing to do
with the bus business. Still, I think it is justified to ask you how your son has
risen so quickly in the bus business.Does your qualification,of being India's
most experienced chief minister, nowstand dwarfed in front of your son's
business accumen? Your nephew left you after your initial success but your
son has stuck by you. In your governance,your daughter-in-law, your son-inlaw, far and near relatives and former loyal bureaucrats,participate with
such unrivalled devotion. So, the real question is: how come the
government makes losses and the son's business grows. Don't you give your
son a free hand in running the state like in the family business? Or have you
given him the conditions in which he is free to poach passengers for his
buses, and make profits from even other businesses,while the state suffers?
These larger questions will make us revisit our ledgers but for this letter it
suffices to place the ownership of the bus company and its conduct on
record.
You have clarified that you have nothing to do with the bus business. On

similar grounds your son is also not involved in this crime. When the Delhi
incident took place in December 2012 and people protested against the
government, did you think of the issue the same way - that providing
compensation is enough? If you have been so consistent in your thinking,
then after the Justice Verma report, the criminal and judicial proceedings,
the debate until now is meaningless. Mukesh Singh had no relation with the
government but people with a social concience came together to question
the functioning of the government and to demand protection and respect for
women. This Mukesh Singh a curious fellow.He occurs in every debate on
rape and murder. Many people agree that we must listen to him. In his
articulation we find how our male-dominated society pegs the women. The
central government with whom you are partners for two decades has
imposed a ban on the film in which Mukesh explains,in detail, his reasoning
to rape. In your own political life you have given a lot of importance to
loyalty. Does that tell us that you are in agreement with the ban on the
film?
Many local newspapers have christened the Moga minor as the second
Nirbhaya. Let us not get into the debate of who is gratifying whom by
naming a murdered girl Nirbhaya. We shall also not discuss the double
standards of journalists who hid the Delhi girls name but exposed this
minors name to the world. You would respond: if the journalist wont keep a
check on themselves, what can the government do? It is a different matter, I
suppose, that some journalists felt the pressure to publish the name
because it is mentioned in the press notes issued by your government and
other organisations. You know, these journalists try to sensationalize news
and distract attention from the major issue. You can ask what a government
can do about a social issue. You are intelligent enough to be part of a
system where government functioning and private business mix but you
make distinctions between social and political issues. It is against this view
of yours that it must be said that all kind of social repression and injustices
that emanate from social thinking come under the political ambit, under
you. Would you agree?
When the society names the girl who was murdered the second Nirghaya,
there must be some trait in her killers which must match Mukesh. In the
documentary Indias Daughter Mukesh has stated that after a rape, the
rapists expect a girl to be ashamed and silent. Mukesh presents rape as a

punishment to a girl who has gone out at the wrong hour with an alien man,
and thus, justifies the rape. In the Moga incident we can trace all these
thoughts of Mukesh but more crass. If we listen to Mukeshs argument, as
sociologists would want us to do, Moga adds new facts to our
understanding. This young girl was travelling in day hours with her mother
and brother. If Mukeshs thoughts reflectthe male-dominance of society,
what was on these killers minds? Mukesh was saying that after a nights
episode the ashamed girl will not open her mouth. Why did your sons bus
employees impudently believe they would escape the blame of this daylight crime? Would you want to understand their thoughts too?
There are a number of allegations against your sons buses: how they break
traffic rules; how the police do not act against them and provides them
patronage. Your private buses rule the roads of Punjab. Anyone hit by them
cant get even a complaint registered with police. Maybe you will be
annoyed to hear this but in popular parlance people call your sons buses
the Badal buses. The police tell the victims of these buses that just as we
do not complain about slipping on a banana peel, we must not complain or
mind being run over by these Badal buses. I am sure your government has
not issued such orders to the police. But, you know,minions often adhere to
verbal orders better than to others. Anyway slaves know how to read the
masters eyes.Especially when those who obey expect the masters to
promote them and gift them plum posts. After all, you favour your loyalists
by getting them discharged from government jobs and entering them into
politics. Such instances are not limited to a chief secretary, a police chief, or
a sports director alone. We now have a flood of government officers quitting
their jobs to enter the elections on behalf of your party or have entered their
wives or relatives into the fray for electoral gains. Potentailly, every
employee in the police and transport department could be in the race to
understand your signals and to do your bidding.
In the name of your son, his employees assert themselves over government
employees. You know how egoistic people quickly forget that the assertion
is not theirs but of their masters. Since you have had to handle so many
egoistic minions in your life time, you know this well. Remember, at one
time Gurcharan Singh Tohra had considered the Shiromani Akali Dal
government as his government. You had to tell him who was the master of
the political party and the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee. You

had announced Manpreet Badals political suicide with a heavy heart.

Dont you think it is the myth your minions believe in that the assertion of
your name is to their personal credit? One can often see incidents of
arguments over fares, fights and abuses in your busses but I suggest please
do not risk seeing these incidents because any one of your sons employees
could say, With a face like Badal have you now become the chief minister?
The employees stay on the high horse by putting down the customers. To
top it, as an assertion of their right, they inflict loud films and songs on the
customers. In your buses, right next to the advertisements of Nanhi Chan
(the NGO, headed by your daughter-in-law, a campaign against female
featicide) they play movies which train people on how to harass women at
public spaces.
The bus business is such that, if the employees dont indulge in corruption,
the employers appreciate their aggressive behavior. Orbit is no exception.
After all, who better to control these unruly passengers than a handful of
aggressive employees per bus? Videos of them manhandling government
employees are available online. You would remember that in Amritsar a
couple of miscreants had murdered a uniformed father of a girl they were
harassing. With great consideration you had provided the girl compensation
and a government job on compasionate grounds. After that your party
workers had broken a senior police officersleg in Ludhiana. At that time too
the police had acted swiftly. The question is, in your governance, why does
politics enter the functioning of police. Why does, even after the
delimitation process of police stations, the police consult your constituency
incharges or elective representative before deciding on their course of
action or inaction?Under the able guidance of these counsellors any action
against your sons employees is out of the police limits. In such conditions
any of your private employees cant be booked for any violation or crime?
Those who consider themselves to be in your image are not only your
employees but also your political activists and loyalists. When they commit
eve teasing, molestations, display rude behaviour, engage in fights and
humiliate others, it is never an issue. Those who consider themselves in
your image have commited a wrong in Moga. If the victim were alive, you
and your police could have ignored the bad behaviour. Even twisted the
story. It has been difficult to deal with a corpse. I am writing this letter to
establishyour role in reducing a teenage girl to a dead body. Those who

pushed the girl from the bus were not only a Mukesh but also you. That
horrible crime has been committed under your patronage. As an elected
representative of a male-dominated society whose thinking is against
women and the head of a capitalist government, you signalled this murder.
Whether the courts try you or not, this allegation shall forever be a part of
the political and social reality and the peoples history of Punjab.
The compensation and action against erring employeesalso displays your
understanding of social dynamics. It is an example of the ongoing multi
dimensional civil war against women in Punjab. By paying money to the
victim family, you seem to believe that Punjabis, who enter fake paper
marriages to get visas to go abroad, can also sell corpses. Punjabis who
marry their daughters, sisters, nieces to become permanent citizens abroad
have a price at which they can be bought. Today girlsclear tests to become
citizens abroad and have marriages to fill their parents coffers. The crime is
not of the minors fathers who received compensation upon his daughters
death. It is your crime that you have created these dishonourable
circumstances. When Punjabi go abroad to live and come back to die, it is
your fiefdom that flourishes. The dead body of that poor girl has become the
hope of her poor parents. You are responsible for our society having come to
such a pass that we compromise with living with dignity. You practice the
politics of using and throwing your employees. For example, the recent
day-light murder, in police custody, of gangster Sukha Kahlwanand
hiskillers. The same boys work for the politicians involved in the sand and
gravel smuggling, land grabs, the liquor mafia, the cash rich businesses of
dhabas, schools and hospitals. While they live, they earn profits for their
lords,who are part of your machinery; when they die, their bullet ridden
bodies become trophies of your law and order machinery.This time you
sought to buy a dead body through your money and have taken action
against the erring employees. You neeed to ask yourself, what glory has it
brought you?
Your son has, temporarily,after intense pressure, removed his buses from
the roads and sent the employees for an orientation course. As if this
murder has taken place because of a lack of proper orientation. That is not
the case. You know it.The murder took place because of an insolent
government and through political collusion. It is a political murder. If we fail
to see this murder as political we can neither challenge nor change the

inhuman politics of our times. The Congress does not have the moral or
principaled strength to play politics over this murder. The multiple factions
of the Aam Aadmi Party are unable to get to the root of this issue and are
busy making their own noise. In the Left parties the stagnation is becoming
stronger. Though this incident might not damage you too much politically,
this would remain forever etched in the peoples history of our times. Your
social-political and economic purchasing power in the current circumstances
might be highest but, you know, the ordinary and suffering people always
dream of nailing down the tyrant.
At this time your political spokespersons are telling us to consider the crime
as Gods will. You are their God who endows them with promotions,
postings, honours and all sorts of benefits. On the basis of these benefits
they run the political industry by which they turn healthy living conditions to
wretched ones. Your son wants to turn Punjab into California and creates
slogans like We shall rule 25 years. Ambulances with your pictures are
happily ferrying corpses. Your TV channels tell stories of how you rule to
serve. Though not all newspapers and channels belong to you even the
other editors wish to stay in your good books. Look at how they reveal the
name of the murdered minor but hide the name of the owner responsible for
the murder in editorials. A newspaper in its editorial has said that bus
belongs to influential person.Another newspaper wrote that the bus owner
is a political person.They should have said the truth - that the top most
person is not influential but the owner. Who would have asked them, at
what forum, that at what position does a favoured one become an owner?
The favoured ones are the ones who have a say with the government and
the buisness houses. You could be the provider for the favoured ones but
your position is higher. Anyway, in journalism there is an abundance of the
favoured ones. You know how you have employed journalists in your
government and business operations. When you call a journalist by name,
our society considers itas a major achievement for the journalist. As a result,
it becomes difficult to differentiatebetween the practice of journalism and
the publicity business of those who work as journalists or teach the subject.
Now this dead body in Moga had upset your calculations. Journalists will find
news in all incidents of sexual harassment at public places. It will become
your argument that your bus that has been unduly highlighted and such
incidents happen everywhere. No one can say that everything outside your

bus is fine. Yet, tell me, in which part of Punjab and in which business of
Punjab are you not involved? Political parties respond to most cruel
incidents and overlook political excesses and humilation in day to day life.
The humiliation or torture before the body became a corpse never becomes
news. For example, we consider farmer suicides as an agrarian crisis alone
ignoring the cruel process leading towards suicide. Now after the Moga
incident many will be jealous as to why they were not murdered in your bus.
Everyone seeks a space just as wide as a needles eye to escape this bad
life. The boys the police catches trying to burgle ATMS want to enjoy life in
this mortal world. Like you.How do we teach them that to reach the heavens
one has to die? You too found this heaven through the history of sacrifices
by the Shiromani Akali Dal. This you keep reminding us. Let us not get into
the detailsof how handy the skill to eat the butter and keep the face
cleanhas become for you. The question that often arises is how come the
people who sacrifice are different from the people who rule?You have made
it clear that after demanding the sacrifices the rulers compensate only the
deserving. It is clear that the people can claim these compensations only
through legal aids, discretionary quotas and blood relations.
This letter is about a claim outside these claims. It is about the rights of a
citizen before death. It is about a person with a Punjabi identity and about
the persons right to live with dignity. I am writing this to mark the persons
need to live within onesown will. I am writing this to identify human
relations beyond kinship and legalities. I am writing this to remember the
traditional relationship between empathy and the Punjabis. It is a political
act to identify the murderers of a contemporary killed in Moga. We are the
Punjabis dying bit by bit. This letter makes no claim to represent all
Punjabis.No citizen has that right. Yet, every Punjabi citizen has the right to
speak how their nerves ache when death closes in on them.
After reading this letter, you may doubt that I am presenting you a demand
charter. No, it is not a demand charter but an attempt to make the
polarisation between you the government and the people clear. You are in
continuity of a history. The one who occupies the post of a chief minister
and those who seek to occupy it are part of the same tradition. This letter is
to question your history of blood sucking rulers whom Nanak called raje,
sheen, muqadam . This open letter is also part of a tradition, not only to
you but as an exercise in introspection. If killers keep being identified, the

oppressed can hope to come together.The accumulation of empathy may

strenthen the unity of downtrodden.While you follow the tradition of kings,
the humanity that prays for the better of the world(sarbat da bhala) would
some day demand accounts. Some day history will give a chance to the girl
murdered in Moga and the Punjabis dying bit by bit to address the question
of which snake has bitten their lives. The representative of Punjabis, Prof.
Mohan Singh, had said that worldis divided into two sides, one of people
and the other of leeches. The great poet of Punjabis,Faiz Ahmed Faiz had
made the pronouncement, It is true, we shall see ...(Lazim hai ke hum bhi
dekhenge )
As a chief minister, you may consider, some day she may come to seek
answers.
Daljit Ami

Oppose The Re-Launch Of Salwa Judum In Chhattisgarh

CDRO (Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations) expresses deep

concern over recent reports regarding the re-launching of the notorious
state-sponsored anti-Maoist militia, the Salwa Judum, from 25th May 2015.
While inaugurating the Vikas Sangharsh Samiti in Dantewada on 5th May,
the new leader, Chhavindra Kumar, announced that the main aim of the
Samiti will be to finish the Maoists in Bastar. Pertinently, this
announcement comes ahead of the Prime Ministers visit to the state with
suggested plans of signing two significant MOUs valued at Rs. 24,000
crores. It is feared that the Samiti, like the Judum before, will repeat the
saga of forcible and violent evictions in the affected villages which are
resisting this corporatized development model embraced by the state.
The history of Salwa Judum presents some very real dangers which
exemplify the state practice of encouraging vigilante forces drawn from
among the Adivasi communities. Claimed as a peace movement, the
previous avatar had spread terror and fear in the Bastar region between

2005 and 2009, when Chhavindra Kumars father, Mahendra Karma and his
followers forcibly evicted 3.5 lakh Adivasis from 640 villages in anti-Maoist
operations. Many Adivasis were incarcerated in camps run by Judum
members and state forces and subjected to brutal forms of torture and
sexual violence. More importantly, when it was succeeded by the state-led
Operation Greenhunt from September 2009 onward, the Judum members
found new identities as SPOs (Special Police Officers) who accompanied the
security forces in area domination exercises, a euphemism for state terror.
Even when the Supreme Court held that SPOs were unconstitutional and
demanded their immediate disbanding in 2011, a significant section had
already morphed itself into Koya Commandos to escape the Courts
vigilance, and the rest were regularized as police personnel by the state
government. Consequently, villages situated near security camps have
continuously borne the terror and fear of armed personnel.
In all this, the threats of Salwa Judum Part 2 have already begun as
Chhavindra Kumar has claimed that 18 village panchayats have banned
the entry of Maoists. It needs to be recalled that in 2005, Salwa Judum was
launched a few days after MoUs were signed with Essar and Tatas to pave
the way for corporate acquisition of forest land for mining and other
projects. This complicity of the Central Government, the State Government
and the corporate houses is evident in present anticipated re-launch and
Kumar has stated that the role of Salwa Judum Part 2 will be to undertake
development works in the region with the help of the State Government.
The imposition of the state directed development model in Chhattisgarh
has only brought about destruction in terms of both the Adivasis quality of
life and in terms of minings contribution to environmental degradation.
Although the recently enacted Forest Rights Act (FRA) has given the Adivasis
some control over forest lands, this protection has little or no meaning as
any protest over land grab or complaint of harassment by security forces is
treated as a Naxal offence. By banning the Maoists, the police have had a
free run in arresting anyone who resists the Governments corporate
friendly policies. As a result, thousands of Adivasis are currently rotting in
Bastar jails- which are notorious for being over crowded, unhygienic, and
under staffed- without bail and without any hope of justice.
Chhavindra Kumars Salwa Judum Part 2 is part of the states campaign
against the Maoists. As a state propped militia which is eager to fight the

states dirty war against the Maoists, it has started parroting the states
developmental rhetoric and advocating peace while practicing war. CDRO
calls for a collective opposition against its re-launching and demands an end
to the decade-long lawlessness prevailing in Bastar.

Appointment Of Justice Sathasivam Will Compromise Autonomous Status Of

NHRC Says PUCL
By PUCL

To
Sh. Pranab Mukherjee,
Honble President of India.
Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi
Respected Rashtrapatiji,
Greetings!
Our National President, Prof. Prabhakar Sinha, has already sent a
representation to you requesting you not to give your consent to the
appointment of Justice Mr. P. Sathasivam (presently Governor of Kerala) as
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, if such a
recommendation is made to you for your approval. In this connection, I will
like to emphasize on behalf of our organisation, that the views expressed by
Prof. Prabhakar Sinha are the views of Peoples Union for Civil Liberties. I am
therefore taking the liberty of sending the same representation which may
kindly be treated as the representation on behalf of Peoples Union for Civil
Liberties, for your kind consideration.
Prof. Sinha has given ample and justifiable reasons in support of his view as
to why such an appointment, if it is made, will be contrary to the law,

democratic ethic and the spirit of the Indian Constitution and the Protection
of Human Rights. We do not want to question either Justice Sathasivam's
honesty or his judicial ability, but wish to emphasize that the most essential
and indispensable qualification of the Chairperson of the NHRC is the
enjoyment of complete and unshakeable trust of the people in his ability to
stand for their rights against the almost almighty Executive. By accepting
his appointment as a Governor, after holding the post of the Chief Justice of
India, he has accepted a position in which he would be taking orders,
including for his own resignation, from the Home Secretary of the Union
Government. Many Governors have received such orders from the present
government and have been dismissed for non-compliance. Justice P.
Sathasivam has thus accepted a position in which the incumbent is liable to
be hired and fired by the Executive. At least, six or seven Governors have
been fired by the present government in a little less than one year.
India is a signatory to the `Paris Principles or the `Principles guiding
National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
(1991) which was adopted by the UN Human Rights Commission in 1992
and the UN General Assembly in 1993.
According to the Paris Principles, National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
are expected to be autonomous and function independently of the
government and to exercise their power freely to consider any question
falling within its competence, whether they are submitted by the
Government or taken up by it without referral to a higher authority, on the
proposal of its members or of any petitioner. Importantly, a key function of
the NHRIs includes to drawing the attention of the Government to
situations in any part of the country where human rights are violated and
making proposals to it for initiatives to put an end to such situations and,
where necessary, expressing an opinion on the positions and reactions of
the Government (emphasis ours).
Thus two of the 6 key elements of the `Paris Principles require National
Human Rights Institutions to be autonomous and independent of the
government in all their functioning.
As the PUCL National President, Prof. Sinha, points out, how will ordinary
citizens have confidence in the impartiality, fairness, objectivity and

independence of a person who owes his current position as Governor of a

state to the pleasure of the ruling Central Government? When such a
person, who is seen as being close to the ruling dispensation and
Government, is appointed to head the NHRC, not only will the appointment
be seen as tainted but it will also affect the very integrity, credibility and
authority of the institution meant to protect violation of the human rights of
citizens. It needs no emphasis that some of the biggest violators of human
rights are state agencies. Following his retirement, Justice Sathasivam's act
of accepting the office of the Governor, with its terms and conditions being
dishonourable for a former Chief Justice of India, has destroyed the
confidence of the people that such a person may ever stand up to his
erstwhile master to protect their human rights.
It is precisely such a compromising situation that is anticipated by the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights who points out in a
Report in 2010:
True independence is fundamental to success of the institution ... If it is not
independent, or not seen to be independent, it is unlikely it will be able to
achieve much of lasting worth.
It will be relevant to point out at this juncture, that apart from `autonomy
and independence the Paris Principles also stress the importance of (i)
`transparency in the appointment process, (ii) wide spread `consultation
with civil society and human rights organisations and (iii) ensuring
`pluralism and diversity in the selection and composition of members of
Human Rights Institutions. Any dilution in the operation of these standards
will lead to a downgrading of the NHRC by the ICC, the accreditation body of
the UN Human Rights Council. It will seriously affect the trust and
confidence of ordinary citizens of India in the NHRC as an impartial body
which will protect their human rights.
We would like to reiterate what our National President, Prof. Sinha has
requested of you: not to accept the recommendation of Mr. Justice
Sathasivam, retired Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India and presently
Governor of Kerala, for the post of the Chairperson of the NHRC.
Sir, fortunately in this case, you can protect our human rights by refusing to

appoint Justice Sathasivam as chairperson of the NHRC even if his name is

recommended. You have to make the appointment of the Chairperson of the
National Human Rights Commission not on the advice of the Council of
Ministers, which is binding under Art.74 of the Constitution, but on the
recommendation of a Committee (consisting of the Prime Minister, the
Union Home Minister, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Deputy Chairperson
of the Rajya Sabha and the Leaders of the opposition in both the Houses of
Parliament) constituted under sec. 4 of the Protection of Human Rights
Act,1993, which is not binding under the Constitution. The only limitation on
your power to appoint the Chairperson and the members of the NHRC is that
you are not empowered to make the appointment without obtaining the
recommendation of the said Committee. Therefore in this case, Sir, the final
decision vests with you as the President of India, and not with the Cabinet
whose advice is mandatory for the President usually, but not in this case.
We are confident you will take an informed decision and decide what is best
for the nation and safeguarding human rights.
With best regards,
Yours faithfully
Sd/Prof. Prabhakar Sinha, President, PUCL
Dr. V. Suresh, General Secretary, PUCL

INDIA: Where cheating police officers and corrupt politicians rule

Kerala Inspector General of Police, Mr. T.J. Jose was expelled from a public
examination centre on 4 May 2015 for cheating. Jose, who arrived at the

centre in his official vehicle, in civilian dress, was caught red-handed by the
invigilator copying from photocopies of booklets he had hidden inside a
hand towel. The officer was appearing for a written paper on constitutional
law, i.e. on Indias founding document, which guarantees primacy of truth.
When the invigilator ordered Jose to handover the material that he was
copying from, and to leave the examination hall, he refused. When the
invigilator insisted, Jose left the hall, threatening the invigilator that he is
the Inspector General of Police.
The Home Minister of the state has ordered an investigation, and directed
the officer to go on leave. The Minister, in a public statement, further said
that such police officers must not be allowed to remain in service. When the
media questioned Jose about the incident, he denied cheating in the
examination, and further alleged that the Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kerala, is attempting to malign the image of the state police force.
The Indian public know the true face of the Indian police. History and daily
interactions reinforce this understanding, and fill Indians with contempt. The
cheating incident involving Officer Jose has only validated this public
sentiment.
The incident, however, brings to the fore other important issues as well. The
Officer has already claimed that the entire incident is mere allegation. It will
be a surprise if any further action is taken against the Officer, other than a
namesake investigation. In India this has been the norm whenever there is
an accusation of crime against a police officer.
Jose is an officer in the state police service, where, as Inspector General, he
is responsible for disciplining subordinates. What morale will this officer gift
to his subordinates? As a police officer, Jose is also an investigator. How
could the public and the government trust such an officer or a team led by
him? Or, is a cheating investigating officer but a symptom of the larger
problem in governance?
The Kerala State Government has in its cabinet three ministers, including
the Finance Minister, who are accused of corruption. The former Chief Whip
of the ruling coalition has spoken in public, providing meticulous details

about who offered/paid bribes, what amount was paid and for what cause,
who accepted the same, and where the transactions took place. The
Ministers have denied the charges and they continue in office.
It has taken more than a month for the government to initiate any action
against the ministers, of which the latest is the state police requesting for
an appointment with the Finance Minister for an interview. No one in Kerala
believes that the investigations will lead to prosecution. Officers like Jose will
ensure that.
From across India one can cite hundreds of similar cases. These incidents
speak of the vicious circle that exists in the high offices in the country. Police
and the politicians have together built an impenetrable fort of impunity that
serves their interests; it is strong and tall enough to protect corruption.
Inside this fort, concepts like fair trial and the rule of law have no place. In
fact, it has been built to negate these very principles.
The popular perception that bad politicians create bad cops needs a
proviso.
Bad cops produce even worse politicians.

INDIA: Attack on Greenpeace India is an attack on free speech

The announcement by Greenpeace India of its imminent shutdown is

saddening. However, it was only a matter of time. How long could the
organization have continued running with its bank accounts frozen and with
a ban on foreign funds? That this has happened after the Delhi High Courts
judgments in two cases related to the governments crackdown on
Greenpeace India is telling on how the Modi government views dissenting
voices in India.
The second of these judgments has arrived against the union governments
attempt to muzzle dissent by restraining Priya Pillai, a Greenpeace activist,
from travel to the U.K., on account of her creating a negative image of the

country. The judgment is unequivocal:

Criticism, by an individual, may not be palatable; even so, it cannot be
muzzled. Many civil right activists believe that they have the right, as
citizens, to bring to the notice of the state the incongruity in the
developmental policies of the state. The state may not accept the views of
the civil right activists, but that by itself, cannot be a good enough reason to
do away with dissent.
The judgment goes on to state, Contrarian views held by a section of
people on these aspects cannot be used to describe such section or class of
people as anti-national. If the view advanced on behalf of the respondents
is accepted, it would result in conferring uncanalised and arbitrary power in
the executive, which could, based on its subjective view, portray any
activity as anti-national. This kind of action by the executive is
unacceptable in a democratic republic, the Court has ruled.
The earlier judgement, delivered on 20 January 2015 is even more
unambiguous in criticising the governments attempt to suffocate the
organization by drying up its funds. It clearly states that there is no
material on record to restrict the petitioner (Greenpeace India Society) from
accessing the bank account with IDBI bank in Chennai," and observes that
the "amount in fixed deposited [sic.] in the bank be unblocked and
transferred to the NGO's account.
The government of India has, clearly, been in no mood to listen and has
responded to the Court directive by suspending the FCRA registration of
Greenpeace India and freezing all its accounts on grounds termed by the
organization as arbitrary. The government has, however, attributed the
decision to the failure of the organization to inform the authorities
concerned about the transfer of foreign contributions received in the
designated FCRA account and from that account to other ones.
Though answering these allegations and challenging them legally is
Greenpeace Indias job, the crackdown is clearly aimed at sending a
categorical message to the civil society at large, more so those opposed to
aggressive development policies being adopted by the current regime at
huge human and environmental cost. Many of the these projects have

resulted in displacing communities and accelerating deforestation and the

governments singling out of Greenpeace is perhaps because the
organization has successfully stalled several such projects, the Mahan
projects in Madhya Pradesh being the most recent.
More sinister than the crackdown on Greenpeace India, is the arbitrariness
of the allegations the government has made against the organisation. There
is no doubt that the government can take action against any legal or
financial irregularity committed by any organization. But, taking such action
on the grounds that the organisation is adversely affecting public interest
and/or the economic interests of the state opens a Pandora box where
anything, as Delhi High Court observed, can be declared antinational.
It is in this context that the Indian civil society must resist the attack on
Greenpeace India with all its might. It is not a mere organization but the
overall democratic framework of the country that is at stake now. This is
thus also a wakeup call for the Indian civil society to put its own house in
order. It must remember how easily the government could cancel the
licenses of a whopping 8,975 non government organisations not on the
easily challengeable adversely affecting public interest ground but for
failing to file annual returns for the years 2009-10, 2010-11, and 2011-12 in
a row, and then failing to do the same within a 30 days notice period.
Though this failure does not presume any guilt or wrongdoing, it does give
the State a stick with which to silence dissent.

Editorial : Shame SHAME JUDGES & POLICE of Double Standards charge

Sanjay Dutt under TADA & Revoke bail of Salman Khan
- An appeal to honourable supreme court of india

Hereby, HRW appeals to the honourable supreme court of India to review

the sentence given to cine actor mr.sanjay dutt. He is charged under illegal
possession of arms , the stand of prosecution is biased . the culprit cine
actor kept the arms knowing fully well for what purpose it is being kept , he

had had regular contacts with anti-national underworld elements. Still he is

not charged under either TADA or MOCA WHY ? WHERE AS ORDINARY
people who are WHO are alleged to HAVE DONE LESSER QUANTUM OF
CRIME THAN HIM ARE CHARGED WITH TADA & PUNISHED SEVERALLY. WHY
THIS DOUBLE STANDARDS BY THE JUDICIARY ? HEREBY , hrw also appeals to
honourable supreme court of india to make public the transcript of
underworld don abu salem's polygraph test , did sanjay dutt had any links
with abu salem or other anti national elements ? how many film stars ,
sportspersons & politicians have regular contacts with underworld elements
more specifically dawood ibrahim & chota rajan and how many of them
have attended parties hosted by them in gulf countries ?

The corrupt police & Judge go all the way out to help rich criminals , they
invent illogical , weird interpretations of laws and change the sections they
ought to be charged under , totally altering the case in the very beginning
itself. These police foolishly charge a doctor in Orissa under threat national
soveriegnity , they charge little children under TADA under the charges of
giving lunch boxes to naxalites , charge a tailor under TADA for stitching
uniforms to naxalites. Where as the one who is actively involved with
master minds of Bombay bLasts , stores deadly arms & ammunition for their
terrorist activities is just charged under section illegal possession of arms.
The Judge of TADA court who dropped charges under TADA against Sanjay
Dutt , the film personalities and other hi-fi people who are supporting sanjay
dutt are aiding and abetting terrorism. They must be charged for these
crimes , must be thrown out of india , let them settle down in Pakistan / gulf
the breeding ground of terrorism. These people are too kind towards Sanjay
Dutt , have they forgotten the sufferings of hundreds of mumbaikars , death
of innocents. These hi-fi people are not civilized nor humane.

In cases involving rich & mighty , celebrities , some of the judges & police
take favourable positions , file B Reports to close the prosecution cases is
it for any personal gains to themselves ? The answer lies in luxurious life
styles , promotions , post retirement postings of these judges , police and
sudden riches coming to their family members. Inspite of all these nexus it

is due to few honest judges & police these cases are coming to light &
becoming public. Sadly , these honest people are overpowered by corrupt
within the system and Indians are made to suffer injustices. SHAME SHAME
to such Judges & Police of Double Standards.

Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.

Yours
Nagaraja.M.R.

Bengaluru: Bidari allowed lottery racket to thrive- Kumaraswamy

Bengaluru, May 24 (DHNS): JD(S) leader HDKumaraswamy has said former

Bengaluru police commissioner Shankar Bidari was the one who allowed the
single-digit lottery scam to thrive.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, he said Bidari, who had served
as the City police chief between 2008 and 2011, used to hobnob with the
illegal lottery kingpin Pari Rajan and also introduced him to IPS officer Alok
Kumar, who had now landed in the soup.
It is a known fact that Rajan used to visit Bidaris office every day. Bidari
himself would take him in his car to ITC Gardenia, where they would indulge
in all kinds of activities. The same Bidari brigade introduced Rajan to Alok
Kumar, Kumaraswamy claimed.
The former chief minister said MVChandrakanth, a police superintendent in
the north zone of the lottery and excise wing, too, had a role in the scam.
The officer, a relative of Siddaramaiah, had tried to appease his higher-ups
by promising them kickbacks of Rs 25 lakh a month, if he was transferred to

the south zone of the wing.

He said the recently suspended Dharanesh, SP, was in the south zone and
that he was making a payment of Rs 15 lakh to his seniors. However, he has
been made a scapegoat as he is a dalit, he said.
He said Siddaramaiah had helped Chandrakanth get the job as DySP in
1999. The lottery and IPL betting rackets are worth Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000
crore each.
Rajan was running the lottery trade by employing hundreds of youths. He
had hired 300 two-wheelers in Bengaluru and the people he had employed
would go around to collect money, he said.
As many as 600 to 800 cell phones were used for the activity and Rajan
used to collected Rs three crore to Rs four crore a day in the process. The
racket was carried out behind the Upparpet police station, he added.
Kumaraswamy said he had banned single-digit lottery when he was the
chief minister, but the successive governments had let the illegal trade
thrive. The government should reinstate the Excise and Lottery Prohibition
Cell, which it had disbanded, he said.
He said Governor Vajubhai Vala should take cognisance of the interim report
of the CID on the lottery racket and dismiss the Congress government in the
State.

Why has the government not acted against SP Chandrakanth, a relative of

the CM?
Why has the government not acted on the lottery scam as it did in the case
of D KRavis death?
Superintendent of PoliceDharanesh was suspended because he is a Dalit.
KJ George is protecting an IG-rank officer involved in the Rs 2.26-cr robbery
from in a bus in Mysuru.

The epicentre of single-digit lottery is Kalasipalya in Bengaluru.

Who is Pari Rajan?

Pari Rajan hails from KGF in Kolar district and is in his mid 40s. He ventured
into lottery business in early 1990 when lottery system was legal in
Karnataka.
Rajan started his career as a PRO with a reputed lottery ticket wholesale
trading firm. Rajans PR skills helped him establish cordial links with the
police department. He identified weaknesses of the police officers and
exploited it.
Before the lottery was banned by the Congress-JD(S) coalition government
headed by Dharam Singh in 2004, there were two major wholesale agencies
selling tickets at Majestic area in Bengaluru and Rajan was an employee in
one of the agencies. Rajans duty to was to establish links with the police
officers and manage them with money and gifts.
After the ban, Rajan helped those who wished to set up their own agencies.
He also ventured into Kerala state lottery. He expanded his empire in
Karnataka-Kerala border. Rajan used money, liquor and expensive gifts to
win the trust of senior police officers and expanded his business.

Bengaluru lottery scam: ADCP Alok Kumar suspended

BENGALURU: IGP Alok Kumar, whose name prominently figured in the

interim report submitted by the CID in connection with the lottery scam, was
suspended by the state government on Saturday evening.
The stern decision came after Chief Secretary Kaushik Mukherjee held a
meeting with DG&IGP Om Prakash and other senior officers on Saturday
evening. It is said that the government decided to suspend Mr Kumar, who
was serving as Additional Commissioner of Police (West) in Bengaluru, after

pressure mounted from various quarters to refer the case to the CBI. The
suspension has also come as a stern warning to the police top brass, who
join hands with anti-social elements.
Earlier, Dharanesh, who was serving as SP, Excise and Lottery Prohibition
squad, was suspended as he allegedly had links with Paari Rajan, the
kingpin of the scam. In the recently held senior police officers review
meeting, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had pulled up Mr Alok Kumar for his
alleged involvement in the scam. Minutes after the suspension order was
issued, Mr Siddaramaiah said that the officer was suspended based on the
CIDs interim report.
The report stated that circumstantial evidence established a close nexus
between Mr Alok Kumar and Paari Rajan. It is also revealed in the
investigation that Mr Alok Kumar had exerted pressure on a sub-inspector
who went to arrest Rajan. The government will not spare any police official
joining hands with anti-social elements and action will be taken against such
officials mercilessly, he warned.
Hitting out at former chief minister and JD(S) state president H.D.
Kumaraswamys allegation that he had not initiated any action against SP
Chandrakanth, who is allegedly involved in the scam, the chief minister
said, Mr Kumaraswamy is a big liar. Chandrakanth is not my relative and I
wont hesitate to take action against any officers if they are involved in
criminal activities, be it my relative or from my caste.
Additional charge for B.N.S. Reddy
As Mr Alok Kumar stands suspended, it is learnt that IGP B.N.S. Reddy,
Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), has been given the
additional responsibility of Additional Commissioner of Police (West).
Not only nexus with Rajan, Alok also interfered in CID probe
Its not only his alleged nexus with the kingpin of the lottery scam, but also
his alleged interference in the CID probe, that led to the suspension of IGP
Alok Kumar. The government, in its order suspending the senior IPS officer,
stated that Mr Alok Kumar not only helped Paari Rajan, but also interfered in

the investigation process.

Rajan was in direct contact with Mr Kumar and when efforts were made to
arrest the accused by Prakash, Police Sub Inspector of Excise & Lottery
Enforcement, KGF, Mr Kumar called Prakash between 11.30 am and noon
over phone on April 28 and told him, Take action as per law against the
accused. He is known to me. Nothing should be done this way or that way,
the suspension order stated.
On April 30, Mr Kumar made another call through his office land line
informing the police sub-inspector that, The accused Rajan will come to
KGF, do not search for him. The CID report also reveals that as per the
evidence collected, the conversation between Alok Kumar and Prakash has
been confirmed. Rajan, during the CID investigation, revealed that on the
basis of his acquaintance with Alok Kumar, he sought assistance when he
was in trouble, the order said.
The DG & IGP has reported that it is unbecoming of a senior officer to assist
in illegal activities of the accused, the order stated. The government has
also directed Mr Alok Kumar to not leave the headquarters under any
circumstances without the written permission of the government.
I dont know Rajan: Bidari
A day after IGP Alok Kumar denied allegations that he had a nexus with
Paari Rajan, the kingpin of the lottery scam, retired DG & IGP Shankar Bidari
challenged former chief ,inister H.D. Kumaraswamy, who has accused him of
being involved in the scam, to either prove the charges or retire from
politics.
Mr Kumaraswamy has a grudge against me for a few reasons and that is
why he is making these allegations. When I was the DGP of CID, former
KPSC Chairman H.N. Krishna was arrested on charges of irregularities and
malpractices in the selection of gazetted probationers during his tenure
between 1998 and 2004. He was in jail for nearly 60 days. It did not go
down well with Mr Kumaraswamy as Krishna was his family friend, Mr Bidari
said.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. OF 2015

IN THE MATTER OF

NAGARAJA . M.R editor SOS e Clarion of Dalit & SOS e Voice for Justice
# LIG 2 , No 761 , HUDCO First Stage , Laxmikantanagar ,
Hebbal , Mysore 570017 , Karnataka State
.....Petitioner

Versus

Chief Secretary Government of Karnataka Bengaluru

....Respondents

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 12 to ARTICLE 35 & ARTICLE 51A OF THE

CONSTITUTION OF INDIA FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT IN THE NATURE OF
MANDAMUS UNDER ARTICLE 32 & ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF

INDIA.

To ,

Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion

Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the Petitioner
above named.

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH :

1. Facts of the case:

"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian
leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet
tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and
will be lost in political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water
will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the House of Commons
just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of
Late Winston Churchill has been proved right by some of our criminal ,
corrupt peoples representatives , police , public servants & Judges. Some of
the below mentioned judges fall among the category of churchills men
Rogues , Rascals & Freebooters.
2. Eventhough the information is readily available with Revenue
department , MUDA , BDA , KIADB , MCC , BBMP & CMO , information was
denied citing unavailability. If at all information is not truly available , why
didnt the CPIO TRANSFER rti application to concerned departments ,
authorities of Government of Karnataka.
3. Government of Karnataka has got the records of illegal land encroachers
, lake encroachers & violators of building bye-laws readily with it. Also it has

got reports of A T RAMASWAMY REPORT &

SUBRAMANIAM REPORT regarding land crimes.
4. To my repeated RTI appeals for information , appeals for justice MUDA ,
BDA & others didnt respond positively lest the truth comes out. They
conveniently hid the information leading to land crimes. Still through other
sources some of the land crimes came to light through diligent efforts of
media. See LAND CRIMES @ MUDA & BDA at following web pages :
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rti-first-appeal---muda-bdakiadb

5. Some of the land encroachments could have stopped in the early stages
itself , when it was brought to the notice of concerned authorities & courts
of justice. Both government authorities & courts of justice failed to do their
duties. Most prominent example Encroachment of
HEBBAL LAKE & BEML Quarters lake in mysuru. In the early stage itself
years ago it was brought to the notice of authorities & courts they didnt act
on peoples complaint , our complaint nor did they initiate suo motto
action. End result LAKE Encroachment has happened with permanent
structures.
6. This proves some of the officials & Judges are tacitly supporting land
mafia. May be allotment of sites to judges @ Judicial layout Yelhanka ,
Bengaluru , etc may be a way of bribing judges by powers that be in the
government.
7. If a commonman dares to encroach govermnet land , police immediately
take suo motto action & evict the encroacher. If building bye-law is
violated , illegal portion is razed down. All together POLICE , AUTHORITIES ,
COURTS act in a swift , ruthless manner with respect to common man.
8. When lakes are filled with construction debris (from a big corporates
construction site ) with intention of killing the water body & usurping the
land , when big IT giants grab government land , when ministers
themselves build on government land , etc why dont police ,
authorities take suo motto action immediately at the early stage itself.
Where is the swiftness , ruthlessness of police , authorities , court in
discharging their duties. Duty sacrificed at the feet of rich & mighty ?
9. If a commonman is alleged of a petty crime he is immediately arrested ,
put behind bars. Police spend thousands of rupees for investigation to
prosecute that petty criminal. Judges spend hours to hear that case &

prepare judgements running into tens of pages sometimes even over &
above thousand pages. Fine . When the very same police & judge
themselves committ grave crimes detrimental to national security , integrity
, etc , no arrests , no prosecution only cover-up , WHY ? Are Judges & Police
above Law ? Is Judges MAFIA at play ?
10. The action of CPIO at MUDA BDA MCC BBMP & CMO amounts to
cover up of judges & their crimes. Thereby , CPIO is also committing a
crime. Throght this petition the term JUDGE includes all officials performing
quasi judicial functions & judicial functions. Billions of indians are barely
sustaining on a single piece meal a day , we lower middle class people
toiling hard to earn a few hundreds of rupees but still paying tax. Is it not
shame to them / shame to JUDGEs that they draw pay & perks amounting to
lakhs of rupees from our money , from taxes paid by us still not do their
constitutional duties properly.

2. Question(s) of Law:
Are Judges , Police & Rich People above Law & can go scot free ?

3. Grounds:
Requests for equitable justice , free expression & protection to life & liberty.

4. Averment:
GIVE WHAT ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN AGAINST THE GUILTY JUDGES
MENTIONED IN THE BELOW MENTIONED WEB SITES & FOLLOWING
ARTICLES.
We salute honest few in public service , Judiciary , police , parliament &
state legislative assemblies. our whole hearted respects to them. HEREBY , I
DO HUMBLY REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME WRITTEN STATEMENTS / ANSWERS
TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WHICH IN ITSELF ( ie answers ) ARE THE
INFORMATION SOUGHT BY ME. HERE WITH I AM SEEKING NOT THE OPINIONS
ABOUT SOME HYPOTHETICAL ISSUES , BUT YOUR OFFICIAL STAND , LEGAL
STAND ON ISSUES WHICH ARE OF FREQUENT OCCURRENCE WHICH ARE
VIOLATING PEOPLES FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & HUMAN RIGHTS. WE DO

HAVE HIGHEST RESPECTS FOR JUDICIARY & ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS , THIS
IS AN APPEAL FOR TRUTH , INFORMATION SO THAT TO APPREHEND
CORRUPT FEW IN PUBLIC SERVICE, WHO ARE AIDING & ABETTING
TERRORISM , UNDERWORLD & CRIMINALS. I HAVE SHOWN IN DETAIL WITH
LIVE , ACTUAL CASES , EXAMPLES , HOW INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM IS
MANIPULATED BY CRIMINALS WITHIN JUDICIARY , POLICE , PROSECUTION ,
ETC. READ DETAILS AT :
RTI & Land Golmaal
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/rti-land-golmaal-inkarnataka ,
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/land-grabbers-in-m-u-d-a ,
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/judges-cover-up-land-scams
,
Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this
as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to issue instructions to the concerned
public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer
the questions.
That the present petitioner has not filed any other petition (which are
admitted by courts) in any High Court or the Supreme Court of India on the
subject matter of the present petition.

PRAYER:

In the above premises, it is prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased:
1. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider
this as a PIL for : writ of Mandamus and to issue instructions to the chief
secretary of Government of Karnataka to perform their duties & to answer
the questions in RTI appeal .
2. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to initiate
criminal proceedings against the jurisdictional revenue officials , police who
tacitly supported land grabbers. Recover costs from them as land arrears.

3. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to initiate

criminal proceedings against the JUDGES who tacitly supported land
grabbers and didnt take action to stop land encroachment , lake
encroachment in the initial stages itself although it was brought to their
notice. Recover costs from them as land arrears.
4. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India , to
immediately DECLARE Illegal Land Regularization Act ( AKRAMA SAKRAMA )
of Government of Karnataka as unconstitutional , null & void.
5. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India Give
protection to life & livelihood of crusaders fighting against land mafia.
6. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India , to order the
government of Karnataka to pay compensation to poor land encroachers
whose houses were razed down by the authorities. The compensation cost
must be recovered from jurisdictional revenue officials , police & judges as
land arrears. The authorities have conveniently forgotten to raze down
illegal buildings of ministers , illegal housing apartments , etc.
7. Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India , To pass
such other orders and further orders as may be deemed necessary on the
facts and in the circumstances of the case.

FOR WHICH ACT OF KINDNESS, THE PETITIONER SHALL BE DUTY BOUND,

EVER PRAY.

FILED BY: NAGARAJA.M.R.

PETITIONER-IN-PERSON

Date : 14th May 2015

Place : Mysuru India

Enclosed :
RTI First Appeal to following public authorities :
RTI Appellate Authority , o/o Chief Minister , Government of Karnataka ,
Vidhana Soudha , Bangalore.

To,
Shri. Dr.Sindhe Bhimsen Rao . H ,
RTI APPELLATE AUTHORITY & CPIO ,
Additional Secretary to Chief Minister ,
Room No 236 , 2nd Floor ,
Vidhana Soudha , Bangalore 560001.

APPEAL UNDER SEC 19 (3) OF RTI ACT 2005 OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA &
GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA

FULL NAME OF THE APPLICANT : NAGARAJA.M.R.

ADDRESS OF THE APPLICANT : NAGARAJA.M.R.,
EDITOR , SOS E-VOICE JUSTICE & SOS E-CLARION OF DALIT ,
# LIG-2 / 761, OPP WATER WORKS OFFICE,
HUDCO FIRST STAGE, LAXMIKANTANAGAR,
HEBBAL, MYSORE , KARNATAKA PIN 570017.

Please go through the some of actual criminal cases of land grabbings

enclosed herewith.
"Power will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian
leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet
tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and
will be lost in political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water
will be taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the House of Commons
just before the independence of India & Pakistan. Sadly , the forewarning of
Late Winston Churchill has been proved right by some of our criminal ,
corrupt peoples representatives , police , public servants & Judges. Some of
the below mentioned officials fall among the category of churchills men
Rogues , Rascals & Freebooters. To my previous RTI requests & appeals they
tried covering up crores worth SCAM by transferring application from one
to the other at the end by denying information to me, Does not the Revenue
department possess information ?
We salute honest few in public service , our whole hearted respects to them.
HEREBY , I DO HUMBLY REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME WRITTEN STATEMENTS /
ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WHICH IN ITSELF ( ie answers )
ARE THE INFORMATION SOUGHT BY ME. HERE WITH I AM SEEKING NOT THE
OPINIONS ABOUT SOME HYPOTHETICAL ISSUES , BUT YOUR OFFICIAL STAND
, LEGAL STAND ON ISSUES WHICH ARE OF FREQUENT OCCURRENCE WHICH
ARE VIOLATING PEOPLES FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & HUMAN RIGHTS. WE DO
HAVE HIGHEST RESPECTS FOR JUDICIARY & ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS , THIS
IS AN APPEAL FOR TRUTH , INFORMATION SO THAT TO APPREHEND
CORRUPT FEW IN PUBLIC SERVICE, WHO ARE AIDING & ABETTING
TERRORISM , UNDERWORLD & CRIMINALS. I HAVE SHOWN IN DETAIL WITH
LIVE , ACTUAL CASES , EXAMPLES , HOW INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM IS
MANIPULATED BY CRIMINALS WITHIN JUDICIARY , POLICE , PROSECUTION ,
ETC. READ DETAILS AT :
https://sites.google.com/site/eclarionofdalit/wheeling-dealing-judges-police ,
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/judges-cover-up-land-scams
,
https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/land-grabbers-in-m-u-d-a ,

Main A :
1. The land encroachments & illegal buildings and its continued existence
since years is not possible without tacit , covert support of jurisdictional
revenue officials. What disciplinary action has been taken against concerned
officials with respect to each case of land encroachment & illegal buildings ,
case wise ?
2. If not , why ?
3. Is not land AKRAMA SAKRAMA SCHEME itself illegal ?
4. Is not the move of government of Karnataka to legalise land
encroachments & illegal buildings , in itself illegal ?
5. Till date in some cases of land encroachers are evicted & some buildings
violating building byelaws demolished , you could have spared them to
enjoy the benefit of land akrama sakrama scheme. Why you didnt spare
them ?
6. Is this scheme applicable for only chosen few ?
7. Does this scheme also benefit rich people above BPL ?
8. Does this scheme also benefit big land developers , land developing
companies ?
9. To my previous RTI appeals to MUDA , BDA only partial information was
given , conveniently hiding the truth. Is it not violation of RTI act ?
10. Does not hiding information about land crimes , in itself also a crime ?
11. I have shown in detail some land crimes in Karnataka. What action by
government of Karnataka , casewise ?
12. https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/judges-cover-up-landscams ,
13. https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/land-grabbers-in-m-u-da,
14. Does not hiding a land crime , embolden land grabber to commit more
land crimes ?

15. What action taken against BDA , MUDA & Revenue department officials
who are covering crores worth land scams inspite of my repeated appeals &
RTI Requests ?

Main B : RTI QUESTIONS Mysore DC , COMMISSIONER OF MUDA ( MYSORE

URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ) & COMMISSIONER OF MCC ( MYSORE
CITY CORPORATION ) ARE AFRAID TO ANSWER
1. how many times since 1987 , MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT has revised /
modified the mysore city's comprehensive city development plan ?
2. how many cases of CDP violations were registered by MUDA / MCC /
GOVERNMENT since 1987 till date ?
3. how many cases of CDP violations were legalized in the CDP revision /
modification by the authorities ?
4. when an application for alienation of land is made to you , say from civic
amenity site to commercial , what norms are followed by MUDA / MCC /
GOVERNMENT ?
5. how do you provide alternate civic amenity site in the locality , if the area
is already full ? do you deprive people of civic amenities ?
6. during such alenation , is the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT collecting
market rate difference between civic amenity site & commercial site ? if not
why ?
7. in mysore city , many building complexes , buildings have been built fully
violating building bye-laws no set off , no parking space , no emergency
fire exit , no earthquake tolerant . what action by MUDA / MCC /
GOVERNMENT ?
8. how many cases of building bye-laws violations has been registered by
MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT since 1987 ? what is the action status report
yearwise ?
9. how much of MUDA's / MCC's / GOVERNMENT's lands , sites , buildings &
houses have been illegally occupied by criminal tresspassers since 1987 ?
10. has the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT registered criminal cases against
each such illegal occupation ? if not why ? provide status report yearwise ?

11. in how many cases of such illegal occupation MUDA / MCC /

GOVERNMENT has legalized , regularized such illegal occupation just
through MUDA's / MCC's resolution instead of of reallotting the same
through public notification to the next senior most in the waiting list , after
giving notice of allotment cancellation to original allottee ? if not done so
why ?
12. has the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT followed all legal norms in
reallotment of lands , sites , houses , etc to the illegal occupiers ? what is
the procedure followed ?
13. in mysore city , numerous housing societies & real estate Developers
have mushroomed , Land allotments of how many housing societies , real
estate firms among them are legally authorized by MUDA , MCC ,
GOVERNMENT & how many not ? since 1987 till date ?
14. has the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT filed criminal complaints against
such illegal housing societies & illegal real estate firms ? if not why ?
15. what action MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT has initiated against real
estate firms & housing societies who have violated MUDA norms , layout
plans , etc ? if not why ?
16. the government has framed building bye-laws like width of road , space
for civic amenities , parking space , emergency fire exit , etc keeping high in
the mind safety of people first. MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT is in the
practice of levying a pittance as penalty on the building byelaw violators ,
layout Development plan violators & legalizing those
violations. Safety of public & amenities of public are totally neglected by
MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT . When public people die , suffer injuries /
accidents say during a fire tragedy in a complex due to lack of fire exit ,
when people park vehicles on pavement in front of a business complex as
the complex doesn't have a parking space of it's own , the pedestrians
going that way are forced to come down on road resulting in accidents ,
injuries & deaths . is not the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT responsible for
those accidents , injuries & deaths ?
17. what is the criteria adopted by MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT for out of
Turn allotment of Lands , sites , houses to renowned sports persons ,
judges , journalists , politicians , artists , etc ?
18. how many judges , artists , politicians , journalists , sports persons , etc
have benefited from these out of turn allotments by MUDA / MCC /

GOVERNMENT ? specific figures yearwise since 1987 ?

19. what action has been taken against developers , housing societies , who
have violated MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT norms ?
20. when poor scheduled caste , scheduled tribe people , minority people
illegally live On MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT sites building temporary huts ,
MUDA / AUTHORITIES with the help of police razes down those huts & evicts
the poor by brute force. Whereas , when cronies of political bigwigs illegally
occupy MUDA , MCC / GOVERNMENT lands worth crores of rupees & build
big complexes earning thousands of rupees monthly rent , MUDA or
authorities not even files police complaint against them instead regularizes
the illegal occupation by levying a pittance as fine. Why this double
standard by MUDA / MCC GOVERNMENT ?
21. HOW MANY CASES OF ILLEGAL OCCUPATIONS are regularized by MUDA /
MCC / GOVERNMENT since 1987 till date ? yearwise figures ?
22. how much of MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT lands , sites , houses are
under illegal occupation ? status report yearwise since 1987 ?
23. how much of those has been recovered ? has the MUDA ,AUTHORITIES
recovered the rents earned by illegal occupation ?
24. have you filed police complaints against those criminals tresspassers ?
if not why ?
25. is the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT giving wide publicity & sufficient
time to bidders about it's auction schedules ?
26. is the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT giving market value to land loosers ?
27. is the MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT exactly using the acquired lands , for
the same purpose mentioned in the project plan ?
28. is the MUDA / AUTHORITIES acquiring lands at lower rates from farmers
& selling it at a premium , by way making profits just like a real estate
agency ?
29. in villages , there are cattle grazing grounds meant for the usage of
whole villagers, forest for the usage of whole village , lands belonging to
village temples. Some villagers have donated their personal lands to village
temples , cattle grazing for the benefit of whole villagers. All the villagers
are stake holders , owners of such lands. When MUDA / MCC /

GOVERNMENT acquires such lands to whom does it pay compensation ?

what about welfare objectives of those lands ?
30. till date , how many lakes , ponds , how many feeder canals have been
closed , filled with mud , developed , sold as sites , etc by MUDA MCC or
other land developers ?
31. has the MUDA , MCC taken alternate steps to create new lakes , ponds ?
how many are created till date ?
32. in & around mysore city , high tension electric lines are there in busy
residential areas . as per Indian electricity act , no permanent structures
should be under the HT lines. However there are buildings under it. In some
places , HT lines runs in the middle of the road. The authorities Have
developed those areas beneath HT lines as parks , rented out
advertisement spaces & built permanent fencing of those areas spending
lakhs of taxpayer's money. This fencing obstructs the movement of service
personnel of electricity board , to service HT line. Are all these structures
under
& surrounding HT lines legal ?
33. till date how many burial grounds are acquired & sold as sites by MUDA /
MCC / GOVERNMENT or other developers ? specific figures yearwise since
1987 castewise , religionwise ?
34. in & around mysore city , in how many areas developed by MUDA &
private developers , the sewage water generated in those areas is directly
let into lake , ponds ?
35. how many tributaries , lakes , ponds are killed in this fashion by MUDA ,
MCC & other developers , housing societies ?
36. how many business complexes , flats , residential layouts developed by
private real estate developers , housing societies are dumping the
sewage , / waste generated in their buildings , into unauthorized dumping
grounds , lakes , etc . thus disturbing the environment & creating public
health hazard ? how the MUDA / MCC is monitoring sewage / waste
disposal ? status report yearwise since 1987 till date .
37. how many unauthorized housing layouts are there in & around mysore
city ? what action by MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT against them ? action
taken report yearwise since 1987 till date .
38. around mysore city , vast areas of village farm lands , agricultural lands

are acquired by private real estate developers for non agricultural purposes
by a single firm or single owner. Are these actions legal ? some of these real
estate agents have sold those lands to private industries , multinational
companies for crores of rupees. Has the MUDA / MCC /
GOVERNMENT given alienation of land ie conversion from agricultural to
industrial usage. Has KIADB given consent to it ?
39. can a single individual / firm can purchase such vast tracts of
agricultural lands , is it legal ? is it within the KIADB's
comprehensive industrial area development plan ?
40. has the MUDA / MCC , KIADB given wide publicity , public notice calling
for objections before alienation of such lands ?
41. are all those alienations , strictly in conformance to MUDA's / MCC's CDP
& KIADB's industrial area development plan ? violations how many ?
42. is the MUDA & KIADB revising / modifying CDP & INDUSTRIAL AREA
DEVELOPMENT PLAN , to suit those real estate developers & Private
companies ? on what legal grounds ?
43.what action has been taken based on mysore district magistrate
mr.T.M.Vijaya Bhaskar's report on land grabbings in mysore ?
44.in mysore city , hebbal-hootagalli industrial area , a lake has been
destroyed while building kaynes hotel , hinkal lake is shrinking , lake in front
of BEML Quarters has been alloted to M/S THRILLER CLOTHING CO, are all
these actions legal & in conformance to MUDA's CDP ? if not why ? what
action ?
45. while auctioning off the lands of sick industrial unit M/S IDEAL JAWA LTD ,
was there any pre-qualification to bidders that after purchase of lands only it
must be used for industrial use or only industries can participate in the
bidding process ?
46.why not it has been clearly mentioned in the tender document that , said
land is open for alienation ?
47. about this issue , our publication has even raised it's objections , in it's
newspaper . no action , why ? as a result , the government , banks ,
employees were cheated off their dues & the private firm made huge
profits. is this auction & alienation legal ?

48.numerous NGO's , trusts promoted by religious bodies , mutts are

allotted prime lands at preferrential rates , for the reason that they will use
it for public / social welfare. however many of the trusts are using the whole
or part of the land for commercial purposes other than the stated public /
social welfare purpose. what action has been taken by MUDA , MCC or
government in such cases ?
49.how many trusts have violated government norms in this way since 1987
till date? what action taken by MUDA , MCC & government action taken
report yearwise since 1987 till date ?
50.how many such illegalities / violations by trusts are regularized by
MUDA , MCC or authorities , on what legal grounds ? ATR since 1987 till date
?
51.before regularizing such violations have you sought public objections &
given media publicity ? if not why ?
52.how you are monitoring the net wealth growth of some MUDA / MCC /
REVENUE officials & their family members , who have land acquisition /
denotifying , land usage conversion authorities ?
53.how many trusts , NGOs are allotted prime residential / commercial lands
by MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT on lease basis , in turn the said trusts ,
NGOs have sulet it either partly or wholly to others ?
54.how many such lease allotments are sold by MUDA / MCC /
GOVERNMENT before the expiry of lease period , without public auction ?
55. what are the norms followed by MUDA / MCC / GOVERNMENT for the sale
of leased lands to the lessee before the expiry of lease period ?

Main C : RTI QUESTIONS COMMISSIONER OF BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITY ( BDA ) , COMMISSIONER , BRIHATH BANGALORE MAHANAGARA
PALIKE ( BBMP ) & CHAIRMAN , KARNATAKA INDUSTRIAL AREA
DEVELOPMENT BOARD ( KIADB) ARE AFRAID TO ANSWER
1. how many times since 1987 , BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT has
revised / modified the Bangalore city's comprehensive city development
plan ?
2. how many cases of CDP violations were registered by BDA / BBMNP /

KIADB / GOVERNMENT since 1987 till date ?

3. how many cases of CDP violations were legalized in the CDP revision /
modification by the authorities ?
4. when an application for alienation of land is made to you , say from civic
amenity site to commercial , what norms are followed by BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT?
5. how do you provide alternate civic amenity site in the locality , if the area
is already full ? do you deprive people of civic amenities ?
6. during such alenation , is the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT
collecting market rate difference between civic amenity site & commercial
site ? if not why ?
7. in bangalore city , many building complexes , buildings have been built
fully violating building bye-laws no set off , no parking space , no
emergency fire exit , no earthquake tolerant . what action by BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT?
8. how many cases of building bye-laws violations has been registered by
BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT since 1987 ? what is the action status
report yearwise ?
9. how much of BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT lands , sites ,
buildings & houses have been illegally occupied by criminal tresspassers
since 1987 ?
10. has the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT registered criminal cases
against each such illegal occupation ? if not why ? provide status report
yearwise ?
11. in how many cases of such illegal occupation BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT has legalized , regularized such illegal occupation just
through BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT ` s resolution instead of of reallotting the same through public notification to the next senior most in the
waiting list , after giving notice of allotment cancellation to original
allottee ? if not done so why ?
12. has the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT followed all legal norms in
reallotment of lands , sites , houses , etc to the illegal occupiers ? what is
the procedure followed ?

13. in bangalore city , numerous housing societies & real estate Developers
have mushroomed , Land allotments of how many housing societies , real
estate firms among them are legally authorized by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT & how many not ? since 1987 till date ?
14. has the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT filed criminal complaints
against such illegal housing societies & illegal real estate firms ? if not why ?
15. what action BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT has initiated against
real estate firms & housing societies who have violated BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT norms , layout plans , etc ? if not why ?
16. the government has framed building bye-laws like width of road , space
for civic amenities , parking space , emergency fire exit , etc keeping high in
the mind safety of people first. BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT is in
the practice of levying a pittance as penalty on the building byelaw violators
, layout Development plan violators & legalizing those violations. Safety of
public & amenities of public are totally neglected by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT. When public people die , suffer injuries / accidents say
during a fire tragedy in a complex due to lack of fire exit , when people park
vehicles on pavement in front of a business complex as the complex doesn't
have a parking space of it's own , the pedestrians going that way are forced
to come down on road resulting in accidents , injuries & deaths . is not the
BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT responsible for those accidents ,
injuries & deaths ?
17. what is the criteria adopted by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT for
out of Turn allotment of Lands , sites , houses to renowned sports persons ,
judges , journalists , politicians , artists , etc ?
18. how many judges , artists , politicians , journalists , sports persons , etc
have benefited from these out of turn allotments by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT? specific figures yearwise since 1987 ?
19. what action has been taken against developers , housing societies , who
have violated BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT norms ?
20. when poor scheduled caste , scheduled tribe people , minority people
illegally live On BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT sites building
temporary huts , BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT with the help of
police razes down those huts & evicts the poor by brute force. Whereas ,
when cronies of political bigwigs illegally occupy BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT lands worth crores of rupees & build big complexes earning
thousands of rupees monthly rent , BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT or

authorities not even files police complaint against them instead regularizes
the illegal occupation by levying a pittance as fine. Why this double
standard by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT?
21. HOW MANY CASES OF ILLEGAL OCCUPATIONS are regularized by BDA /
BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT since 1987 till date ? yearwise figures ?
22. how much of BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT lands , sites , houses
are under illegal occupation ? status report yearwise since 1987 ?
23. how much of those has been recovered ? has the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT arecovered the rents earned by illegal occupation ?
24. have you filed police complaints against those criminals tresspassers ?
if not why ?
25. is the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT giving wide publicity &
sufficient time to bidders about it's auction schedules ?
26. is the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT giving market value to land
loosers ?
27. is the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT exactly using the acquired
lands , for the same purpose mentioned in the project plan ?
28. is the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT acquiring lands at lower
rates from farmers & selling it at a premium , by way making profits just like
a real estate agency ?
29. in villages , there are cattle grazing grounds meant for the usage of
whole villagers, forest for the usage of whole village , lands belonging to
village temples. Some villagers have donated their personal lands to village
temples , cattle grazing for the benefit of whole villagers. All the villagers
are stake holders , owners of such lands. When BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT acquires such lands to whom does it pay compensation ?
what about welfare objectives of those lands ?
30. till date , how many lakes , ponds , how many feeder canals have been
closed , filled with mud , developed , sold as sites , etc by BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT or other land developers ?
31. has the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT taken alternate steps to
create new lakes , ponds ? how many are created till date ?

32. in & around bangalore city , high tension electric lines are there in busy
residential areas . as per Indian electricity act , no permanent structures
should be under the HT lines. However there are buildings under it. In some
places , HT lines runs in the middle of the road. The authorities Have
developed those areas beneath HT lines as parks , rented out advertisement
spaces & built permanent fencing of those areas spending lakhs of
taxpayer's money. This fencing obstructs the movement of service
personnel of electricity board , to service HT line. Are all these structures
under & surrounding HT lines legal ?
33. till date how many burial grounds are acquired & sold as sites by BDA /
BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT or other developers ? specific figures
yearwise since 1987 castewise , religionwise ?
34. in & around bangalore city , in how many areas developed by BDA /
BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT & private developers , the sewage water
generated in those areas is directly let into lake , ponds ?
35. how many tributaries , lakes , ponds are killed in this fashion by BDA /
BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT & other developers , housing societies ?
36. how many business complexes , flats , residential layouts developed by
private real estate developers , housing societies are dumping the
sewage , / waste generated in their buildings , into unauthorized dumping
grounds , lakes , etc . thus disturbing the environment & creating public
health hazard ? how the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT is monitoring
sewage / waste disposal ? status report yearwise since 1987 till date .
37. how many unauthorized housing layouts are there in & around
bangalore city ? what action by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT
against them ? action taken report yearwise since 1987 till date .
38. around bangalore city , vast areas of village farm lands , agricultural
lands are acquired by private real estate developers for non agricultural
purposes by a single firm or single owner. Are these actions legal ? some of
these real estate agents have sold those lands to private industries ,
multinational companies for crores of rupees. Has the BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT given alienation of land ie conversion from
agricultural to industrial usage. Has KIADB given consent to it ?
39. can a single individual / firm can purchase such vast tracts of
agricultural lands , is it legal ? is it within the KIADB's comprehensive
industrial area development plan ?

40. has the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT given wide publicity ,
public notice calling for objections before alienation of such lands ?
41. are all those alienations , strictly in conformance to BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT's industrial area development plan ? violations how
many ?
42. is the BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT revising / modifying CDP &
INDUSTRIAL AREA DEVELOPMENT PLAN , to suit those real estate developers
& Private companies ? on what legal grounds ?
43.what action has been taken based on mysore district magistrate
mr.T.M.Vijaya Bhaskar's report on land grabbings in mysore ?
44.in mysore city , hebbal-hootagalli industrial area , a lake has been
destroyed while building kaynes hotel , hinkal lake is shrinking , lake in front
of BEML Quarters has been alloted to M/S THRILLER CLOTHING CO, are all
these actions legal & in conformance to MUDA's CDP ? if not why ? what
action ?
45. while auctioning off the lands of sick industrial unit M/S IDEAL JAWA LTD ,
was there any pre-qualification to bidders that after purchase of lands only it
must be used for industrial use or only industries can participate in the
bidding process ?
46.why not it has been clearly mentioned in the tender document that , said
land is open for alienation ?
47. about this issue , our publication has even raised it's objections , in it's
newspaper . no action , why ? as a result , the government , banks ,
employees were cheated off their dues & the private firm made huge
profits. is this auction & alienation legal ?
48.numerous NGO's , trusts promoted by religious bodies , mutts are
allotted prime lands at preferrential rates , for the reason that they will use
it for public / social welfare. however many of the trusts are using the whole
or part of the land for commercial purposes other than the stated public /
social welfare purpose. what action has been taken by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB
/ GOVERNMENT in such cases ?
49.how many trusts have violated government norms in this way since 1987
till date? what action taken by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT action
taken report yearwise since 1987 till date ?

50.how many such illegalities / violations by trusts are regularized by BDA /

BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT, on what legal grounds ? ATR since 1987 till
date ?
51.before regularizing such violations have you sought public objections &
given media publicity ? if not why ?
52.how you are monitoring the net wealth growth of some BDA / BBMNP /
KIADB / GOVERNMENT officials & their family members , who have land
acquisition / denotifying , land usage conversion authorities ?
53.how many trusts , NGOs are allotted prime residential / commercial lands
by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT on lease basis , in turn the said
trusts , NGOs have sulet it either partly or wholly to others ?
54.how many such lease allotments are sold by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB /
GOVERNMENT before the expiry of lease period , without public auction ?
55. what are the norms followed by BDA / BBMNP / KIADB / GOVERNMENT
for the sale of leased lands to the lessee before the expiry of lease period ?
56. what is the status of house allotted to sri.chandrashekariah vide BDA
allotment letter no: 310/267/BDA/ADM/KMRSL(H)/78-79 dt 11/08/1978.
57. why BDA didn't file police complaint to evict encroachers?
58. why BDA didn't inform the descendents of original allottee about the
cancellation of their allotment ?
59.what happened to the money deposited by original allottee?
60.is the action of BDA allotting the said house to an illegal encroacher just
by the resolution of BDA committee legal ?
61. in case the BDA wished to re-allot the said house , first it must have
informed the original allottee about cancellation of allotment allowing them
sufficient time to reply with public notice in news papers , then they should
have allotted the said house to the senior most in the waiting list. But BDA
has just allotted the house to an illegal encroacher by the resolution of BDA
committee. Is it legal ?
62. BDA officials gave half truths to my RTI request & stated that the said
file concerning this issue cann't be found ie lost . is it legal ?

63. has the BDA filed police complaint regarding theft of file from the record
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BBMP gets 3-month deadline to clear lake encroachment

Upa Lokayukta seems to be emerging as a new saviour for Bengalurus
lakes. Subhash Adi, the Upa Lokayukta of Karnataka Lokayukta, has set a
deadline of three months for BBMP to clear the encroachment of lakes by
slums, with proper rehabilitation. Upa Lokayukta came up with this order

after reading the inspection reports on 183 lakes done by BBMP, BDA and
other civic agencies that look into the lakes of Bengaluru. The report by
BBMP was presented to Upa-Lokayukta in November, 2013. Following this,
Upa Lokayukta called all the top officials, the Bangalore Urban Deputy
Commissioner, Commissioner of Bangalore Development Authority,
Chairman of Karnataka Slum Development Board and lake engineers for a
meeting on November 25, 2013. Subhash Adi told Citizen Matters that he
was appalled on the conditions of lakes in the city. The reports reveal that
sewage lines were directly connected into some of the lakes, while six of the
BBMP lakes were occupied by slums. He also asked BDA to hand over 13
lakes developed by BDA, back to BBMP in 15 days. Reports reveal
encroachments The reports submitted to Upa Lokayukta by civic agencies
had details about 55 lakes of corporation, 115 lakes looked after by BDA,
nine lakes under Lake Development Authority and four lakes under
Karnataka Forest Department. Shubhash Adi told Citizen Matters that out of
55 lakes managed by BBMP, 29 lakes were completely free from
encroachment, while 20 lakes of BBMP saw encroachment of 23 acres of
lakes by different structures like (buildings, temples, factory or military)
Since these encroachments were small in size, they were easily removed,
said Upa Lokayukta. He added: A few lakes had bigger encroachment. They
will be removed. The respective agency that manages the lake will provide
temporary settlements. Slums still continue to occupy a total of 45 acres
BBMPs six lakes - Shilavanthana kere, Kowdenahalli, Puttenahalli (J P
Nagar), Dasarahalli, Vijnanapura Kere and Doddabommasandra. He said,
Engineers couldnt take immediate action on slum settlements near lake.
These slums are bigger in size and require to be rehabilitated. I have
ordered the corporation and slum development board to immediately build
temporary sheds till the permanent sheds are built in three months.
Major encroachment is seen at Kowdenahalli lake. 1000 slum houses, a
government school, a college, a church and a temple have occupied an area
of 32 acres of lake. Kowdenahalli lake is spread over 66 acres in Bangalore
East. Dasarahalli lake in Chokkasandra village has 310 houses. 257 houses
have encroached Vijnanapura lake in Bangalore East, added Justice
Subhash Adi. Karnataka Slum Development Board (KSDB) will look into the
rehabilitation of the slum dwellers. Corporation will spend money on the
construction of temporary structures on the available government land at
various places. Funds for this will be used by Rajiv Awas Yojana (Ray)
scheme. The permanent structures will be built by the funds from Slum
Clearance department. If necessary, Bangalore Urban Deputy Commissioner
will also help in providing land, he explained. Lets use treated sewage
water Justice Subhash Adi also raised concerns about untreated sewage
water being let into lake freely. He remarked that every apartment with
more than 100 houses must have an STP. Though this is mentioned in the
building bylaws, nobody follows it. These rules should be enforced strictly.

BWSSB has proposed an idea of setting up independent STP plants at each

lake. The untreated sewage water that is now let into the lake will have to
go through STP. The treated water will be let into lake and can be used for
commercial, industrial and construction purposes. Already one such plant
exists next to Iblur lake by BWSSB. But the Upa Lokayukta feels it is
insufficient to treat the amount of sewage water that it receives. He is
impressed by the idea of reusing the water. This will not only rejuvenate
the lake but will also reduce the pressure on groundwater. Simultaneously, it
will solve the sewage water problem and help get some income. If not
immediately, over a period of time it will definitely help reduce the
consumption of water in the city. Even if the water is unused, the
groundwater level will increase in that area, he observed. We will hold
discussions on this with Principal Secretary of Urban Development
Department along with the BWSSB and other officials. They will study the
idea in three months and come up with plans. Once this gets clearance, it
will be put in force. Talking about the cost, he said, setting up an STP
doesnt involve big expenditure. STPs can be set up at Rs. 4 crores; this is
not a big amount as compared to Bangalore's population and the present
need. After removing encroachment on lakes, Upa Lokayukta looks forward
to ensure protection of lakes. He was quite impressed with the initiatives of
citizens staying near Puttenahalli (J P Nagar) and Kaikondrahalli lake to
maintain these lakes. He said he would be delighted to see locals stepping
forward to maintain it.
Land encroached by Infosys, other companies in Thindlu Lake
recovered

Continuing drive against encroachment, Revenue officials on Friday

recovered land area in and around the dried-up Thindlu Lake in Bengaluru
south which was encroached by many persons and companies including ITmajor, Infosys.
A team of officials demolished the compound wall built around one acre of
encroached land. Many agriculturists and private parties had encroached
the lake and built a road on the lake, Assistant Commissioner (Bangalore
south) L.C. Nagraj said.
The total recovered land is about 25 acres and estimated valued at Rs. 75
crores, he said.
Reacting to the allegations on the encroachment of land, Infosys clarified
that the land was granted after survey by the Survey Department. They are
looking into the matter.

Site allotment to VIPs on lakebed in Dollars Colony to be verified

Bengaluru Urban district incharge Minister Ramalinga Reddy said

on Tuesday that the government would verify as to how Bangalore
Development Authority (BDA) had allotted sites to 410 VIPs in
Dollars Colony, JP Nagar, without ascertaining that it was the bed of
Linganahalli lake.

Reddy said that the Deputy Commissioners office had already begun
issuing show-cause notices to the VVIPs. While talking tough about the
encroachments by private parties and private layouts on lake beds, Reddy
softened his stance over the allotment of sites to the VIPs by BDA.
We have to ascertain as to how the BDA could have done such a thing. We
will ascertain the facts before going forward with any action, he said.
Reddy said that a few residents in Dollars Colony had already come to meet
him, with concerns over the notices issued to them.
According to JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, who convened a separate
press conference on Tuesday, the list of VVIPs who have homes constructed
on the lake bed include former BJP ministers C M Udasi and Shobha
Karandlaje, retired IAS officer I M Vittalamurthy and a senior High Court
judge.
Kumaraswamy dared the government to first act against those who have
built their homes on the Linganahalli lake bed, before demolishing homes of
poor and middleclass citizens. The JD(S)leader said the lake was a live one,
as per the S Lakshman Rao committee report on the encroachment of
lakes. A lake - which was live in 1986 and for which a government order
was issued that it should not be touched - was approved as a layout in
1997. How is it possible? he said.
Kumaraswamy added that if the government still wanted to revive the lake,
it should denotify land to the extent of 76 acres of Jakkur lake and 75 acres
of Dasanapura lake from the 1,760 acres of Arkavathi layout notified under
the re-do scheme.

The Art of Living Illegally

THE GURU of joy Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been found guilty of
encroaching more than five acres of government land worth Rs 50
crore in Karnataka. The land meant to be distributed to the poor and
landless has been illegally acquired by Sri Sri, who has constructed an
Art of Living meditation centre on it, violating the law.

Even though the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA)

wanted to fine Guruji and had asked for the demolition of the
building, a timely intervention by former chief minister BS
Yeddyurappa has saved the Art of Living Foundation from facing legal
action.
According to documents obtained by TEHELKA, MUDA had acquired
100 acres at Alanahalli village near Mysore in 1985, 92 and 97 for
the development of residential colonies for 1.5 lakh landless poor. Out
of the 100 acres notified by MUDA, 70 were developed and the rest
was denotified and restored to the original owners.
The land that Sri Sri acquired was left as a buffer zone and not
developed as a residential layout as it allowed for the free flow of
water from Chamundi Hills to Alanahalli tank. It was supposed to be
converted into a botanical park, says M Lakshmana of the
Association of Concerned and Informed Citizens of Mysore.
However, in 2002, the land was acquired by the Art of Living through
a proxy by the name of R Raghu, even when the land was in the
possession of MUDA. And a building was constructed for conducting
yoga and meditation classes.
Taking note of this, on 20 December last year, the then Deputy
Commissioner of Mysore Harsh Gupta wrote to MUDA directing it to
reclaim the government land from the Art of Living, and sought a
response within seven days. Following the order, MUDA wrote to the
tehsildar instructing him to serve a notice to Art of Living. The
tehsildars offi ce did so on 4 January, stating that the building
constructed at Alanahalli was illegal and slapped a fine of Rs 1,000 on
the organisation as per the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964.

Apart from this penalty, Art of Living was given two days time to
demolish the building, failing which the department would clear the
encroachment and slap an additional fine of Rs 25 per day.
Shunted out of the deputy commissioners post, Gupta, now assistant
director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, says, During my tenure, a survey
was being conducted of the 1,500 acres of government land. And
wherever discrepancies were found, notices and orders were issued.
During that survey, we found out that the Art of Living had
encroached upon five acres of government land.
Guptas orders were not carried out. The same day, a letter from the
chief ministers offi ce signed by Principal Secretary ISN Prasad
prevented the deputy commissioner and the taluka administration
from carrying out its duties.
The letter instructed the district and taluka administration against
demolishing the Art of Living building on survey No. 41/F block (P6) in
Alanahalli, saying, The chief minister will take a decision on it.
However, Yeddyurappa did not bother to take any decision and the Art
of Living continued construction activities on the land.
It was done to stop the precipitate action, says Prasad. An Art of
Living delegation had met Yeddyurappa and he had asked the district
administration to refrain from action till a further decision is taken.
That didnt happen due to various reasons. But the current Chief
Minister DV Sadananda Gowda will call a meeting with all the local
offi cials, says Prasad.
Responding to the claims, Karthik Krishna of the Art of Livings bureau
of communication says, Since 2003, we have been working to
denotify this land that was falsely notified to extract a bribe, which
we fought tooth and nail and were also slapped with a fine.
The Art of Living has not encroached on any land, he says. The 5-acre
plot was purchased by R Raghu from Gangu Belli Belliappa on 25
November 2002. Since then, the premises have been utilised with the
permission of the landlord for conducting yoga and meditation
classes, says Krishna.

This is not the first time a case of land-grab has been brought
against the Art of Living, says Lakshmana. In Mandya district, the

organisation has been accused of grabbing 20 acres. And a 2006

report on government land encroachments in the state had also found
discrepancies in its Bengaluru ashram. In Mysore, apart from the five
acres of government land, the Art of Living has encroached around
seven acres worth Rs 70 crore near the tourist spot of Chamundi Hills.
V Balasubramaniam, former chairman of Land Task Force, says the AT
Ramaswamy Committee report had found that the organisation had
encroached upon 6.35 acres of government land in Agara village in
Kengeri, Bengaluru. The committee claimed that the land encroached
by the Art of Living was worth more than Rs 8 crore.
Lakshmana has filed a criminal complaint against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
and Yeddyurappa. I have also lodged a complaint with the state
Human Rights Commission, asking how a high-flying organisation like
the Art of Living could obtain a site when poor and landless people
are waiting for the past 30 years, says Lakshmana.

YET ANOTHER MUDA SITE GRABBED

Mysuru, Mar. 26- In yet another case of land grabbing that has now come to
light, a 50x80 site (No. 5491) in Vijayanagar second stage, adjoining site
No. 5490, which was allegedly grabbed by unscrupulous persons using
forged documents (reported in SOM on 24.3.2015), too has been reportedly
grabbed.
One B. Thimmappa, a resident of 9th main, Saraswathipuram, is alleged to
have grabbed site No. 5491 measuring 50x80 located near the water tank
in Vijayanagar second stage, using forged documents.
The hand of unscrupulous MUDA employees is suspected in this case too.
MUDA Commissioner S. Palaiah, after coming to know of the fraud, has
annulled the allotment letter, Sale Deed and other documents pertaining to
the site.
B. Thimmappa is said to have taken the site into possession under the Asha
Mandira Scheme on 17.2.2003, with unscrupulous MUDA employees
allegedly joining hands with him in creating fake documents. Thimmappa
later sold the site to K. Kantharaj and S. Vinutha on 13.5.2010, with the
khata transfer too done.

Later, Kantharaj and Vinutha sold the site to P. Gopal Rao, M. Ravishankar
and Prabhushankar.
Thereafter, the buyers Gopal Rao, Ravishankar and Prabhushankar sold the
site to one D. Diwakar, along with khata transfer. Despite all these
transactions taking place, the unscrupulous MUDA employees and the
fraudsters have taken enough care to ensure that the cheating does not
come to light.
However, the fraud came to light when the documents came under
thorough scrutiny of MUDA Commissioner.
With the grabbing coming to light, the authorities have erected a shed in a
portion of the site.
The grabbing of a site adjacent to another allegedly grabbed site on which a
building has come up, has caused concern amongst the public, who are now
left wondering on how to distinguish between genuine and fake documents.
The MUDA officials are coming across such site grabbing cases, even as
they dig deeper into the mess.
Even as MUDA authorities are unearthing site grabbing case, MUDA
Commissioner S. Palaiah has appealed the buyers to thoroughly check the
documents with MUDA for authenticity.
Meanwhile, Pooja Prabhakar, who claims to be the owner of site No. 5490 in
Vijayanagar second stage, which was found to have been grabbed using
forged documents, during a scrutiny on Mar. 10, is reportedly all set to drag
the MUDA to the Court over the issue.
Pooja Prabhakar is said to have cited a case where in a person is said to
have allegedly built an unauthorised commercial structure on an illegally
purchased site and thus earning a huge sum of money after letting out the
structure on rent/lease.

Save Hebbal Lake Save BEML Quarters Lake in Mysore

An Appeal to
Honourable Supreme Court of India

In the past , Mysore Maharaja & other philanthropists have

donated their personal lands , properties , built many lakes &
ponds in mysore , bangalore and other places with public concern
, public wellbeing in their mind . They built these lakes & ponds
in addition to preserving the natural lakes & ponds. They knew
about the importance of ecological balance & environment. The
present rulers , IAS & KAS babus have even failed to preserve
the lakes & ponds built decades ago , let alone build one. These
Public servants have extended their tacit support to building mafia
, to kill these lakes & ponds , to fill those lakes with industrial
effluents , sewage & building mud wastes. After killing those
lakes & ponds , the building mafia encroaches on it & usurps that
public property in turn selling it for crores of rupees.

In this way , Hootagalli lake was killed & encroached by Kaynes

Hotel ( now silent shores hotel) , Hebbal Lake is being killed &
encroached from all sides by industries and the lake infront of
BEML Quarters is being killed & land demarcation for selling
those land has already begun.

The public servants were totally indifferent towards public outcry

against this . The IAS & KAS babus who are also magistrates with
judicial authority have failed in preserving these lakes & ponds
inspite of appeals to them. These death of lakes resulting in their
encroachments could have been prevented earlier by DC ,
Tahsildar , MUDA Commissioner & KIADB Officers. Even I have
appealed to them through my web news paper , they didnt take
action at all. I have made RTI request to those authorities to give
me information regarding status of those lakes years ago , fearing
truth will come out they didnt answer my questions in full , they
only gave half truths. When I persisted with my RTI request the
Mysore District Magistrate at that time Mr. P.Manivannan
repeatedly called me over phone , abused me & threatened me .
Even threats were made by some policemen in mufti . Finally that
lake land was allotted to a person supposed to be close to the
Industries minister at that time. The courts are dispassionate &
inhuman , while passing eviction orders against poor people , the
police are full of guts & show their full bravery , valour against

these poor land encroachers. Fine , let us appreciate their duty

consciousness . However rich & well connected criminals have
illegally encroached upon public lands , the same courts and
police are not taking appropriate action inspite of repeated
appeals , why ? Even the Supreme Court of India & Police are
Weak & Meek before Land Mafia. Dont the same Judges & Police
have Guts , Bravery , Duty Consciousness & Integrity to take action
against such rich land grabbers ? The answer lies in the following
articles. Once again we offer our conditional services to Supreme
Court of India , to legally apprehend criminals while the respective
public servants have failed to do the same.

Hereby , we request the honourable Supreme Court of India ,

1.
To initiate criminal prosecution against Mysore district
magistrate , Mysore taluk magistrate , MUDA Commissioner ,
Jurisdictional Police Officers & KIADB Officer , for making contempt
of Supreme Court of India Order applying throughout india to
preserve lakes & ponds.
2.

To evict all encroachers forth with .

3.
To immediately stop all flow of industrial effluents & sewage
to these lakes & ponds.
4.
To initiate criminal prosecution against encroachers of these
lakes & pollters , killers of these lakes.
5.
To preserve the said lakes & ponds , by recovering cost
from encroachers , polluting industries and the co-conspirators
Mysore DC , Mysore Tahsildar , MUDA Commissioner , KIADB Officer
& Jurisdictional Police Officers.
6.
To protect me , my family members & dependents from land
mafia & co-conspirators of the crime.
7.
To order , to issue Writ of Mandamus to Mysore District
Magistrate , MUDA Commissioner & KIADB Officer to disclose all
the information sought by me in my RTI request publicly. The copy
of my RTI request is reproduced below.

Date : 17.11.2012
Sincerely,

Yours

Place : Mysore

Nagaraja.M.R.

Sign to Save Hebbal Lake &

BEML Quarters Lake in Mysore

http://www.change.org/petitions/honourable-supreme-court-ofindia-save-hebbal-lake-save-beml-quarters-lake-in-mysore#

To,
Honourable Chief Justice of India ,
c/o Registrar,
Supreme Court of India,
New Delhi.

Honourable

sir ,

Subject : - PIL Appeal To Honorable Supreme court of India For

Writ of Mandamus
LITMUS TEST
INDIA

for

HONESTY

of

SUPREME COURT OF

AKRAMA SAKRAMA / REGULARISATION OF ILLEGAL LAND

ENCROACHMENTS ILLEGAL LAND CONSTRUCTIONS BUILDING BYELAW VIOLATIONS

KIADB de-notification scandal , BMIC NICE SCANDAL , MINING

SCANDALS and Threats to RTI Applicant

Rich builders , crooks in their greed for more money ( knowing fully well
the illegalities ) have constructed buildings on public land , constructed
buildings violating the building bye-laws. Now , those crooks are earning
lakhs of rupees rental income . The government law enforcement
agencies were mum , didnt demolish such buildings in time , allowing time
for crooks to benefit from anticipated regularisation. However the same
government agencies have not shown kind consideration to poor people
who have constructed temporary hutments on public land . Those
hutments were immediately demolished & people evicted.

These building bye-law violators , Land grabbers are not poor people living
below poverty line earning only rupees 32 per day as per planning
commission of india. These rich crooks dont deserve sympathy , kind
consideration as they have committed the crime knowing fully well the
illegalities and they can bear the loss due to the demolition of their illegal
buildings. The government must also recover rent & other monetary gains
made out of those illegal buildings by the builder.

The recent move of Government of Karnataka to regularize building byelaw violations & Public Land Grabbers amounts to :
1.

Rewards for illegalities , crimes if one is rich.

2.

Punishes , demotivates honest law abiding citizens.

3.

Double standards in law one set for rich & one set for the poor.

4.

Total disregard to safety of people in those illegal buildings .

5.
Total disregard to safety of people in the neighbourhood and people
using roads passing by those illegal buildings.

Judicial Layout Site Allotment BRIBE TO JUDGES ?

Is the allotment of residential plots to Judges @ yelahanka Judicial

Layout , a mode of paying bribe to judges by the biggest litigant
government itself & the corrupt public servants in the government.
So that the government can pass illegal laws like Regularization of
Illegal Buildings , Illegal Appointments to Medical colleges in
Hassan , Mysore ,etc & ministers , IAS officers can indulge in
illegal unconstitutional acts , but the courts will not take any
appropriate action suo motto or based on any petition. IT IS
MUTUAL HELP , NEXUS OF TWO CRIMINALS JUDICIARY &
GOVERNMENT. Ofcourse , there are honest few exceptions in
judiciary & government. We Respect those honest few.

Just months back , we have witnessed the collapse of a multi

storied building in bellary ,Karnataka & we have witnessed a fire
tragedy in a multi-storey building in Bangalore, months ago there
was collapse of a huge building under construction in Bangalore ,
all resulting in loss of human lives. Recently we have seen denotification scam involving VVIPs . All these are the result of
violations of Urban Town Planning Laws , Building bye-laws which
are observed more in breach by the criminals & conniving public
servants . The authorities are behaving like real estate agents of
criminals , by-passing norms , framing laws to the tune of
criminals . Authorities are not honoring RTI requests & even high
ranking IAS officer repeatedly threatens a commoner seeking
information under RTI ACT .

Before embarking on land acquisition for any projects government

authorities must plan & assess what are the actual requirement of
land for that particular project. After finding out the actual
requirement of land , they must assess the loss of forest area ,
cost of compensation pay-out , cost of rehabilitation of people ,
environmental damages & resultant health damages to people in
surrounding areas ,its resultant losses when the project gets
running , if at all the benefits , profits from that project far
outweighs the losses ,then only project should be put before the
public for their consent. Ministers & IAS officers must not take
these decisions all by themselves in a hush hush manner.

Even when a project is downsized , from the previously approved

size , the land left over , surplus land must be given back to the
original owner on first priority . The project managers must not sell
those surplus lands to third parties for a premium .
Even when KIADB ,BDA ,MUDA & other authorities acquire lands
from farmers ,for constructing industrial parks or residential
layouts , etc , has framed comprehensive development plans (CDP)
for their respective cities , clearly demarcating land usage pattern .
However after acquisition of land , the KIADB , BDA , MUDA , etc
are selling those very lands to private third parties for different
land usage purposes ,completely violating CDP. Are these KIADB ,
BDA , BBMP , MUDA ,MCC real estate agents of Rich people ?

Now , consider NICE BMIC SCANDAL or MINING Scandals , public

servants in responsible positions are accusing each other , there by
proving that almost all of them are criminals. In democracy ,
ministers & IAS officers are public servants , MLAs , MPs are not
leaders just public servants - representative of people. They must
represent peoples wishes & must order the IAS & other officers to
fulfil the wishes of people as per legal provisions.
Information input forms part of process of one's expression. One's
expression in any forms written , oral , etc becomes information
input to the opposite person , in turn he expresses his reply.
Information & Expression are inseparable parts & form lifeline of a
democracy. That is the reason , Right to Expression is the basic
fundamental right as well as human right of every Indian citizen.
When a person's right to expression is violated , his other rights to
equality , justice , etc also are violated. Suppression of Information
amounts to curbing of Expression.

In a democracy , people have a right to know how the public

servants are functioning. However till date public servants are
hiding behind the veil of Officials Secrets Act (which is of british
vintage created by british to suppress native indians). By this
cover-up public servants are hiding their own corruption , crimes ,
mismanagement , failures , etc. even RTI Act is not being followed
intoto by public servants. However the recent delhi high court

ruling affirming that CJI is under RTI purview & bound to answer RTI
request , is noteworthy.

Our previous RTI request to CJI , union home secretary of GOI,

President of India , DG & IGP of GOK and others were not honored.
The information I sought were answers to the following questions
mentioned in the below mentioned websites . the questions
concerned the past , present continuing injustices meted out to
millions of Indian citizens , due to wrong / illegal work practices of
Indian judges , police & public servants . The information we
sought would expose the traitors , anti-nationals , criminals in
public service. The information we are seeking are no defense
secrets , no national secrets. The truthful information exposes the
anti-nationals , traitors in the public service & strengthens our
national security , national unity & integrity.

Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to

consider this as a PIL for : "writ of Mandamus" and to issue
instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases
to perform their duties & to answer the following Cross Examination / RTI questions.

: https://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/chief-justiceabove-law
Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.
Date : 06.09.2013
Place : Mysore

Yours sincerely,
Nagaraja .M.R.

Bangalore Rural DC Aiyappa, three revenue officials held

BANGALORE: Lokayukta police have arrested Bangalore Rural district deputy

commissioner MK Aiyappa, a special tahsildar, a revenue inspector and a

sub-registrar for allegedly changing records pertaining to 32 acres of land in

Survey No. 62 of Madappanahalli, near Yelahanka.
Lokayukta additional director general of police HNS Rao said they registered
a case against 15 persons, including IAS officer Aiyappa (then Bangalore
Urban deputy commissioner), special tahsildar (Bangalore North) K
Gopalaswamy, revenue inspector N Balakrishnamurthy of Arakere circle,
Hesaraghatta, and sub-registrar (Hesaraghatta) KV Ravi Kumar.
The arrested officials were produced in the Lokayukta court, which
remanded them to a day in police custody. The Lokayukta court had on
November 5 last year ordered that a case be filed under Sections 13 (1)( c),
(d), (e) and 13(2) read with Section 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act as
well as criminal Sections 406, 409, 420, 426, 463, 468, 471, 474 read with
Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy).
The Lokayukta court order followed a private complaint by P Anil Kumar, a
resident of Hesaraghatta.
Preliminary investigation revealed the land was gomala land (common
property resource used for livestock grazing), but a person named
Narasimhaiah claimed ownership of all the 32 acres. Records were created
and the land restored to him, but the then revenue inspector restored the
title to the government. Even as the legal dispute was pending, the land
was purchased by private individuals. The Hesaraghatta sub-registrar
registered the land in their names in 2009.
"The present rate for the land is about Rs 60 crore. Bigwigs named in the
complaint will be questioned, including the purchasers. Everything is on
record, and nobody can deny their responsibility in taking away government
land and restoring it to private individuals," a Lokayukta police official privy
to the investigation told TOI.
There will be some more arrests, he added, as there's ample documentary
evidence and other witness accounts available.

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Illogical land laws fostering mafia, says High Court judge

Acting Chief Justice of High Court of Karnataka, Justice K Sreedhar

Rao on Saturday said lack of logic in several laws, including land
reforms and acquisition laws, is encouraging land mafia, especially
in urban centres.
The existing Land Acquisition Act is the greatest enemy of the common
man. We have only encouraged land mafia through legislation, he said,
while addressing the National Consultation on Urban Poor and the Law,
organised by National Law School of India University (NLSIU) here.
Justice Rao said laws related to land need an overhaul, to ensure owners of
the land get a share of development. The growth of real estate mafias and
skyrocketing property prices hindered average income earners from
purchasing property. By creating mega cities, we have done a great damage
to the country, he added.
Justice Rao said various governments have failed to develop district and
taluk head quarters as a result of which we are not able to prevent
migration to cities. Bangalore has developed as a cancerous slum. The
urban areas are not having the infrastructure or facilities to deal with this
massive population inflow, he said. The judge also pointed out that the
zoning laws often allow arbitrary classifications without taking into account
the real situations on ground.
P K Mohanty, Additional Secretary, Union Ministry of Housing and Poverty
Alleviation, said the proposed law for property rights for urban poor, to
ensure spaces for street vendors, was under consideration and it would be
soon placed before the Parliament.
A major issue that needs to be addressed is residency rights of urban poor
in the context of vulnerabilities that they face. Though several
governmental programmes, specially JNNURM were designed for this
purpose, there was a lack of sufficient response from the States to avail the
funds and use them in time, he said.

BMTF proposes, government disposes

Siddaiah was brought back to BBMP despite request for his suspension for
his role in DLF case
Senior IAS officer H. Siddaiah, who returned as Bruhat Bangalore
Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner for a second stint, has come
under the scanner of the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) as a
suspect officer for his alleged role in the DLF case.
The BMTF, probing the DLF scam that involved illegal widening of a road to
facilitate an increase in the floor area ratio (FAR) of an apartment complex,
had named Mr. Siddaiah, his predecessor Bharat Lal Meena, besides the
former Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) Commissioner Pradeep
Singh Kharola among the three IAS officers whose role had surfaced during
its investigation based on oral and documentary evidence.
BMTF letter
In a letter to Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath, dated November 29, 2012, the
BMTF had sought to place under suspension these three officials, besides 23
others of the BDA and BBMP, to facilitate fair probe.
However, the government chose to ignore the BMTFs recommendation and
brought Mr. Siddaiah back to the BBMP from the Higher Education
Department where he was serving as Principal Secretary, thus replacing
Commissioner Rajneesh Goel.
The report also names several senior officials of the BBMP and the BDA as
suspect officials for having allegedly colluded to allow the DLF to up the
FAR for its projects, violating BBMP bylaws and BDAs master plan.
Charge against Shettar
Meanwhile, RTI activist Dinesh Kallahalli accused Chief Minister Jagadish
Shettar of trying to hush up the matter by bringing back the same suspect
officials. He plans to seekGovernor H.R. Bhardwajs intervention in the
matter as the Chief Minister was involved.
Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Kallahalli said
Tirakana Goudar, Town Planning Member (TPM) in the BDA, who was
reinstated to his post while he was out on bail, was also being favoured by
the Chief Minister.
DLF violations

The BMTF has arrested Mr. Goudar, who was charged with helping DLF
Southern Homes legalise construction beyond what was permitted on a civic
amenity (CA) site. He was accused of approving the widening of the
Hulimavu-Begur Road to legalise DLF Southern Homes illegal construction.
DLF constructed 1,962 flats instead of the 440 for which they had taken
permission. We are not even able to get documents under the Right to
Information Act. We want the Governor to intervene, Mr. Kallahalli said.

LAND SCAM IN TAMILNADU One for my officer, one for my boy

Land and property are coveted assets. So why are chief ministers allowed to
give these away as favours? JEEMON JACOB tracks how Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister M Karunanidhi has been using his quotas
IN NOVEMBER, Chief Minister of Karnataka BS Yeddyurappa almost lost his
job, due to the uproar over preferential allotment of land and property to his
sons and close associates. He has since cancelled the allotments, asked his
children to move out of his official residence, and retained his seat through
some deft political manoeuvring and muscle-flexing. At the height of the
campaign against him, as political opponents paraded on apparent moral
high ground, TEHELKA published details of plots similarly allotted by
previous Karnataka chief ministers, both of the
Congress and the JD(S), to relatives, servants,
drivers, maids and partymen (LAND SCAM 2.0, 4 ILLUSTRATION: ANAND
NAOREM
December). The purpose was not to make
Yeddyurappas wrongdoings look less shocking, but to show that the
problem was endemic and needed rooting out. The right given to chief
ministers to hand out public land to a favoured few relatives, bureaucrats,
judges, police officers and others smacks of nepotism and arbitrary
feudal power structures that should have no place in a modern democracy.
(Though there is no immediate proof of this, some of these allotments could
also be benamitransactions, in which the ultimate ownership remains with
the distributor of the largesse, camouflaged by a stack of fake documents.)
This power euphemistically called discretionary quota has even been
used to favour allegedly corrupt army officers like General Deepak Kapoor
(AT EASE WITH GREASE, TEHELKA, 20 November), who was given a large
500 sq yd plot in Haryana by the Hooda government, which then faced the
embarrassment of refusing him permission to sell it off before five years had

elapsed, as per rules. The plot was given to him by the government as
preferential allotment in recognition for his outstanding achievement.
This week, continuing its campaign against out-of-turn allotments of land
and property, TEHELKA has an expos on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M
Karunanidhi. The Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) which commands a
large land bank, has a government discretionary quota (GDQ) under which
15 percent of all allotments can be recommended by the CM. Eligibility for
allotment under GDQ is as follows: single/deserted women; widows; social
workers; physically handicapped persons; defence personnel; exservicemen; eminent persons in the field of science, arts, literature,
economics, public administration and sports; freedom fighters; government
servants with unblemished service records; employees of PSUs, central
government undertakings and nationalised banks; PF institutions;
journalists; university staff; and employees of local bodies and
municipalities.
While some of these categories sound kosher, most of them raise a
fundamental question: why should the government have the power to give
coveted land to select employees and journalists over others? The only
rationale could be proximity which is an untenable reason for being the
beneficiary of political favours, often worth several crores.
Setting this aside, even within the legal ambit of the GDQ, TEHELKAs
investigation shows that many of the allotments in Karunanidhis tenure
have violated the rule book. Many bureaucrats and their relatives have been
given plots or flats under the category of social worker. Some of these last
did social work when they were in college; many of them claim to be
volunteers in such routine activity as helping in blood donation or eye
camps. Many have issued certificates to themselves; some have acquired
letters from the Lions and Rotary Clubs with vague endorsements. In other
violations, the rules say that no one who has any other land or property in
Tamil Nadu or any other capital city, in either their own or spouse or minor
childrens name, can apply for GDQ allotments. TEHELKA found this is
routinely violated.
Many of the allottees issued certificates to themselves, while some got
letters from Lions and Rotary Clubs
The other brazen violation lies in the claim of unblemished service records
as a qualification for allotment. When RTI activist V Gopalakrishnan sought a
list of such bureaucrats, Additional Secretary S Solomon Raj said, As no
unblemished government servant certificates are issued, the question of
furnishing a list of names does not arise. The additional secretary also

clarified that the home department didnt have such a list. This is the
phantom category under which many public servants like Jaffar Sait, 1986
batch IPS officer, now Inspector General of PoliceIntelligence, got large
allotments of land in prime locations. Why them more than hundreds of
others? Thats a democratic question the chief minister will have to answer.
jee@gmail.com
Legal Largesse
R Bhanumathi
Serving Judge, Madras High Court
FLAT NOS: MIG 249-250, SHOLINGANALLUR PHASE III,
CHENNAI
DATE: 30 MARCH 2008
SIZE: 120 SQ M & 139 SQ M
PRICE: Rs. 27.55 LAKH & Rs. 30.05 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: NA
VIOLATIONS
The judge was allotted two adjoining plots on the same day
(30 March 2008). According to her Disclosure of Assets
statement of 2009, the judge already had a house in her
name, and another plot in her husband, advocate K
Ganesans name. The house, in the Uthangarai area of
Krishnagiri district, was constructed in 1985 on a plot
purchased in 1982. The plot of land is located in Saidapet
and was purchased in 1993. She however admits in her
declaration that she owns two plots, which she purchased
from the TN Housing Board in 2008. But this allocation was
made under the General Category. Since judges do not
come under any of the quota categories, the governments
way of allotting land to them differs from the rest. Judges
are informed about the availability of land. And when they
apply for the same, the government facilitates the
allotment.
K Raviraja Pandian
Retired Justice, Madras High Court
PLOT NO: B2/5, THIRUVANMIYUR EXTENSION
DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2009
SIZE: 3,117 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 68.54 LAKH

CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 3.2 CRORE

VIOLATIONS
Close relative of DMK supremo Karunanidhi and the
Chairman of the School Fee Determination Committee.
Little wonder then he was also the recipient of special
favours while he was still a serving judge. At the time of the
allotment, the judge owned a 50 percent share in an
ancestral house at Thiruveezhimizhalai village. The judge
had also sold a property he owned at Pazhavatthankattali
village near Kumbakonam. The land was purchased in 1991,
a house was constructed on it in 1992 and sold in 2009. He
had also sold the landed property of his wife in 2009.
V Ambika
Advocate
PLOT NO: A8, KADAPERY, MADHURANTHAGAM
DATE: 16 FEBRUARY 2008
SIZE: 2,285 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 4.54 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 15 LAKH
VIOLATIONS
The advocate owned landed property in more than one
location when she was allotted the plot one vacant house
site in Karanai Puducheri village and another in
Katrampakkam village, in Kancheepuram district. Her
husband, Justice M Satyanarayanan of the Madras High
Court, in his Disclosure of Assets, stated that he owns a
repurchased MIG flat constructed in 1969 at Indra Nagar in
Chennai. Ambika was allotted land under the GDQ.
Bureaucratic Bonanza
Jaffar Sait
IGP-Intelligence
FLAT NOS: 540, THIRUVANMIYUR, KAMARAJ NAGAR
DATE: 23 APRIL 2008
SIZE: 4,756 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 1.26 CRORE
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 6 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
Allotted under unblemished government servant category.

On 6 June 2008, the government transferred the ownership

of the plot to his daughter Jennifer Jaffar, then a student.
Jennifer made two payments of Rs. 46.03 lakh and Rs.1.73
lakh towards cost of the plot. In February 2009, she paid
another Rs.60 lakh. After having paid Rs.1.07 crore, the
ownership of plot was transferred to her mother Parvin
Jaffar. Interestingly, Parvin also made the payment all over
again. In October 2009, she paid Rs. 50.64 lakh and then
again in November 2009, another Rs. 25 lakh was
deposited. A further payment of Rs. 51.5 lakh in the same
month was made. Income tax officials feel the Sait family
made the double payment to avoid an IT investigation on
Jennifer, who would not have been able to show any source
of income. The Tamil Nadu Housing Board then returned the
original amount paid by Jennifer. Now, Parvin in
collaboration with Durga Sankar, son of an IAS officer, has
commissioned a builder to construct a multi-storey complex
in which 12 flats have already been built. Each flat is
expected to fetch an estimated 1 crore. So, by paying Rs.
1.26 crore in 2009, the IGPs family made a profit of more
than Rs. 5.7 crore.
G Prakash
Joint Secretary, Industries
PLOT NO: S6, THIRUVANMIYUR EXTENSION
DATE: 6 MAY 2008
SIZE: 3,829 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 76.58 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 4 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
The former district collector of Tirunelveli issued himself a
certificate for unblemished government service.
CK Gariyali
Retired IAS, Secretary to Governor at the time of allotment
FLAT NOS: S4, THIRUVANMIYUR EXTENSION
DATE: 7 MAY 2008
SIZE: 6,023 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 1.20 CRORE. PAYMENT WAS MADE IN 33
INSTALMENTS FROM 18 JULY 2008 TO 6 MARCH 2009
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 6.8 CRORE (APPROX)
VIOLATIONS

Her husband Dr S Rajakumar has a house in Chennai.

Sumathi Ravichandran
Former Regional Passport Officer, Chennai, and close
relative of DMK minister K Anbazhagan
PLOT NO: 1050 HIG, MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 28 MARCH 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 59.15 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 1 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
Her husband Dr S Ravichandran owns a plot. Following an
RTI probe, the TNHB issued a show-cause notice and placed
the allotment under suspension.
Political Perks
L Ganeshan
Former MP, who left Vaiko to join DMK
FLAT NOS: 1052 HIG, MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 27 MARCH 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 79.86 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: NA
VIOLATIONS
Ganeshan is a trade union leader with the DMK and is close
to Karunanidhi. He owns property in his as well as his wifes
name.
Brinda Nedunchezhiyan
Wife of late Chezhiyan and daughter-in-law of Agriculture
Minister Veerapandi Arumugam
PLOT NO: HIG B 3/14, MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 13 MARCH 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 9.82 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 45-50 LAKH
VIOLATIONS
Allotted flat under Social worker category. The tehsildar of
Salem issued her a certificate though he is not empowered
to. The certificate says she is a well-known social worker

involved in social welfare activities such as president of

Poolavari village panchayat, head of parent-teachers
association, participating in educational programmes of
many schools.
S Rajalakshmi
Wife of R Sakkarapani, MLA and DMK chief whip
PLOT NO: 1047, MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 9 MARCH 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 79.86 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 3.5 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
She was allotted the flat under the Social Worker category.
The supporting document was a letter from a Rotary Club.
The letter from PNK Venkatachalapathy, president of the
Rotary Club of Oddachatram, dated 31 March 2008, states
that she is known to me as a social worker who is
participating in social service activities of our Rotary Club at
blood donation camps, free health checkup camps and
other welfare activities. She has also been helping in
providing several other basic amenities for the people
surrounding the slum area for the past several years. I wish
her every success to do more services to needy people in
and around the area.
D Yasodha
Congress MLA, Kancheepuram Congress MLA,
Kancheepuram
FLAT NOS: A5, HIG, MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 19 DECEMBER 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 59.56 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 3 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
A certificate from the Chennai Municipal Councillor stating
she has been an active social worker for the past 40 years
actively involved in helping the poor in the area.
Poochi Murugan
Member of a DMK trade union

PLOT NO: A 11, THIRUVANMIYUR EXTENSION

DATE: 6 JUNE 2008
SIZE: 2,422 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 58.61 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 2.75 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
Though a member of a DMK trade union, he was allotted
land under the Social Worker category. Has three plots in his
name and one in his spouses name. He has not produced
any supporting document about the social work he has
done.
Bharati Thennarasu
Widow of Sivagangai politician Thennarasu
FLAT NOS: S7, THIRUVANMIYUR EXTN
DATE: 26 AUGUST 2008
SIZE: 3,879 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 79.13 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 3.75 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
She was allotted the plot under the Social Worker category.
An RTI application revealed that she had not been engaged
in any kind of social work that would make her eligible for
this category.
P Moorthy
Madurai MLA
FLAT NOS: E2/6, MIG, MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 5 DECEMBER 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 72.5 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 4 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
Allotted under the Social Worker category on a certificate
issued by the Lions Club. Owns several plots in his and his
wifes name.
N Soorya
Daughter of Brinda Chezhiyan and grand-daughter of
Agriculture Minister Veerapandi Arumugam

FLAT NOS: B3/13, HIG, MOGAPPAIR

DATE: 3 JUNE 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 8.99 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 45-50 LAKH
VIOLATIONS
Like her mother, the 20-year-old was given a certificate of
social work and domicile by the tehsildar of Salem, stating
that she is a wellknown social worker who is involved in
many social welfare activities, such as national social
service, participating in eye camp, blood donation and
giving education to poor students. The certificate was
issued on 27 February 2008, the same day her mother got
one. Both got adjoining flats.
Kith and Kin
Deepa
Daughter of Devaraj M, Private Secretary to the Chief
Minister
FLAT NOS: 543, THIRUVANMIYUR, KAMARAJ NAGAR (PLOT
ADJOINING SAITS AND SHANKARS)
DATE: 23 MAY 2008
SIZE: 4,466 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 1.08 CRORE
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: NA
VIOLATIONS
Allotted plot under the Social Worker category but theres
no evidence to back it. Constructing a three-storey building
involving a cost beyond the familys known sources of
income. Her husband owns another property in his name.
Her plot is adjacent to the plots of IGP-Intelligence Jaffar
Sait and Durga Shankar, son of the CMs secretary.
Naveenkumar
Son of P Muthuveeran, IAS, who was District Collector,
Theni, and close to the Chief Minister
FLAT NOS: 541, HIG, THIRUVANMIYUR, KAMARAJ NAGAR
DATE: 27 JULY 2008
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 1.06 CRORE

CURRENT MARKET PRICE: NA

VIOLATIONS
Allotted flat under the Social Worker category. He works in a
software company in Chennai and submitted a salary slip of
Rs. 20,000 per month at the time of allotment. Now, he is
constructing a fourstorey structure on the plot.
J Naveen Ibrahim
Son of SI Jaffar Ali, IPS (retd)
FLAT NOS: AI HIG MOGAPPAIR
DATE: 31 MARCH 2009
SIZE: NA
PRICE: Rs. 64.95 LAKH
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: Rs. 3.25 CRORE
VIOLATIONS
Allotted flat under the Social Worker category. Certificate
issued relates to 1983, when he was a student. The college
principal says he actively participated in many social
activities conducted by us. He continues to evince interest
in social service activities. Curiously, the EMI of Rs. 74,000
is almost double his monthly salary.
Durga Sankar
Son of Rajamanikkam, IAS, Secretary to Chief Minister
FLAT NOS: 538, THIRUVANMIYUR, KAMARAJ NAGAR (PLOT
ADJOINING SAITS AND SHANKARS)
DATE: 28 MARCH 2008
SIZE: 2,450 SQ FT
PRICE: Rs. 1.12 CRORE
CURRENT MARKET PRICE: NA
VIOLATIONS
He is a businessman, but allotted the plot under the Social
Worker category. He also submitted an affidavit that the plot
would be used for residential purposes. But he violated the
conditions and developed the property for commercial
purposes.
The Others
M Ilamukil
IT Manager, DMK HQ, Chennai

VIOLATIONS
Allotted flat under the Social Worker category on a
certificate issued by the Lions Club. The certificate states
that he is participating in social service activities of Lions
Club at blood donation camp, free health camps for the past
several years.
Ilanthendral
Ilamukils sister
VIOLATIONS
Allotted HIG flat under the Social Worker category on the
basis of a certificate issued by a panchayat, which is not
valid.
N Kannabiran
Junior attendant at the Supreme Court
VIOLATIONS
Allotted flat under the Social Worker category. Kannabiran, a
Delhi resident, was issued a salary certificate by the SC
registrar for purchasing land in Tamil Nadu. He was allotted
on the recommendation of his superior, who has close links
with the DMK.
C Ganeshan and C Vinothan
PSOs, CMs Security
VIOLATIONS
Allotted flats under the unblemished government servants
category. Documents reveal the Superintendent of Police,
Security Branch, Chennai, issued vague conduct certificates
after the duo were allotted the flats provisionally.
P Meena
W/O P Pandian, PSO, CMs Security
VIOLATIONS
Allotted flat under the Social Worker category. She produced
a letter from MS Velu of the Lions Club, who liberally issued
certificates for sons and daughters of bureaucrats to help
them avail of prime plots allotted by the TN Housing Board
out of the government discretionary quota.
PHOTOS: THE HINDU, JEEMON JACOB
Reactions to Land Scam 3.0

D Yashoda, Congress MLA, Kancheepuram

I have done a lot of work for Dalits throughout Tamil Nadu,
especially in Sriperumbudur and Chennai. I have helped
them in getting pattas for their land, recommending their
names for loans from banks, distributing cycles to Dalits on
the birthdays of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
Jaffar Sait, IPS, IG-Intelligence
Government agencies have already probed the matter. I am
being governed by the conduct rules, so I should not talk to
you about the issue. It is advisable that you seek a response
from the Tamil Nadu government. I would like to add that if
any defamation or liability arises out of your article,
necessary legal action would be taken.
P Moorthy, Madurai MLA
I dont know much about the certificate, I think I got the plot
because Im an MLA. I have done a lot of work in uplifting the
people in villages of my constituency. That amounts to social
work. I dont need a social work certificate from the Lions
Club but my friends, partners and I took the certificate
anyway.

GDQ is a way of making you part of the syndicate

BY JEEMON JACOB
A1990 batch IAS officer, C Umashanker shot to fame
during the AIADMK regime when he exposed a scam in
C Umashanker
the construction of sheds in a cremation ground under
PHOTO: JEEMON
the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana when he was additional
JACOB
collector in Madurai. His brush with AIADMK supremo J
Jayalalithaas partymen resulted in his transfer out of the
district.
Later, when the DMK came to power, he was appointed managing director
of the state-run Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu and put in charge of

procuring colour television sets for free distribution to the poor in the state,
in keeping with an election promise of the DMK. He was transferred with
immediate effect after he exposed corporate fraud committed by the joint
venture promoter ELNET Technologies Ltd.
Later, he was posted as managing director of the state-run Arasu Cable TV
Corporation. In this capacity, he opposed the monopoly of Sumangali
Corporation run by Kalanidhi Maran. He also took steps to nationalise
Sumangali Cable Vision. By that time, Maran had a patch-up with the
Karunanidhi family and Umashanker was transferred with immediate effect.
Later, the anti-corruption and vigilance department registered a case
against him for disproportionate assets. The government
Plots are allotted
suspended him for claiming fake caste certificate as a
even without any
Dalit when he is a practising Christian.
formal
He lodged a complaint with the National Backward
applications.
Commission against his suspension and got a favourable There is no
order from the High Court. At present, he is managing
transparency at
director of Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation.
all
Umashanker was allotted a plot (under government order 2D 325) on 3 April
2008 at Thiruvanmiyur Extension when he was in charge of the free colour
television for the poor programme. For this, he would have had to pay 55.12
lakh. He wrote to the chief minister that he could not afford to pay such a
huge amount. Later, his allotment was cancelled without stating any reason.
Umashanker revealed he had an MIG flat in his name when the plot was
allotted and he was not aware about the rule of Tamil Nadu Housing Board
(TNHB) that he cant claim a plot when he has another flat in his name.
It certainly seems commendable that Umashanker turned down a chance to
own a plot in Thiruvanmiyur Extension, one of the poshest areas of the city.
The plot is just 300 metres from the beach.
Though the entire colony has been parcelled out to those close to the ruling
establishment, it is the nouveau riche and the industrialists who dream of
owning a house in Thiruvanmiyur, where they can rub shoulders with former
judges, bureaucrats and political power brokers. If and when the allottees
decide to sell their plots, they can demand extremely high prices.
In a frank chat, Umashanker talks about how the government discretionary
quota has been misused. Excerpts:

Why are bureaucrats, judges, former judges and politicians given housing
plots in posh localities under government discretionary quota?
Who can refuse a good piece of land in Chennai city? Its a way of rewarding
people for good work done. No inquiry has been conducted in this matter so
far. Discretionary quota is the prerogative of the government. After RTI came
into existence, several activists are taking up the matter in court. Basically,
there is no control mechanism or checks and balances. There is little
transparency while awarding the GDQ the plots are allotted without
formal applications.
You were also allotted a plot in 2008 under the unblemished government
servant category. What happened to the allotment?
Yes, I was allotted a plot in Thiruvanmiyur Extension. Initial payment for the
plot was Rs. 25 lakh. I never had that much money. So I requested the
government to reduce the price. But there was no response. I did not want a
house to compromise my integrity. So I never took possession. Later, in
2009, the government ordered a vigilance inquiry against me and cancelled
the allotment. Frankly, I was not aware about the TNHB rules that bars a
person having a plot, a flat or a house from claiming another plot.
Do you think the GDQ quota is a way of silencing people, buying them out?
Yes, it is a way of making you a part of the syndicate. Plots or flats are given
to those civil servants, judges or relatives of the bureaucrats or politicians
for complying with certain requirements. There is no procedure for IAS or IPS
officers to get a land or plot or flat in a transparent manner. So everybody
uses short cuts.

Ministers DQ proves judges are more corrupt than civil servant

NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: An investigation by Cobra post and IBN

Network has revealed how former and sitting judges of Orissa, police
officers and bureaucrats have received flats from
the DiscretionaryQuota (DQ) of ministers. As a matter of fact, successive
Urban Development Ministers in the Naveen Patnaik government have
misused the discretionary housing quota.
According to the revelation, the judges have got the minister quota flats
out of turn and at cheaper rates.
The IBN Network accessed letters of judges written to the government
asking for prime property in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.

Prime properties were acquired in Cuttack at concession rates, bypassing

the Cuttack Development Authority. In fact, Sectors 10, 11 and 13 of
Cuttacks Abhinav Bidanasi project has practically become a judges
residential colony.
Former Chief Justice G B. Patnaik is a resident of flat 1B/22 in Sector 11
while former Orissa High CourtJudge Radhakrishna Patra has flat 1B/23 in
the same sector, given out on lease.
Supreme Court judge Deba Priya Mohapatra, Orissa High Court judges Sanju
Panda, Madan Mohan Das, Nityanand Prastuti also own flats in Sector 10
and 11.Papers for the flats were prepared quickly and some judges even got
preferred plots.
Most of the allotments took place between 2000 and 2007, under the BJP
cadre Urban and Housing Development Minister Sameer De who was State
Development Minister from 2000-2004 and then Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo
who called the shots from 2004 to 2007.
All that the judges had to do was written to the Minister. The CNN-IBN has a
letter written by Justice Madan Mohan Das to the CDA Chairman and to
Minister Kanak Vardhan Singhdeo, asking for a B-Category Flat in Sector 10,
saying he would ensure a third party transfer of a C-Category Flat already
owned by his wife.Justice Das was allotted the flat in just six days.

When asked why the discretionary quota was used to make the allotments,
Sameer Dey, former Orissa urban development minister, said, The Orissa
act does not have any such rule. There is 5 per cent and 10 per cent
allocation in discretionary quota. Apart from that we dont have any rule.
Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, former Orissa urban development minister, said,
The rule is that only those who apply for the project can be allotted land
via Discretionary Quota. So if any such person does not apply what can we
do?
CNN-IBN has also found that many of the judges who were allotted land
through the discretionary quota already own ancestral property in Cuttack.
Yet the ministers were allotted the land they asked for.

Mysore DC indicted for illegally delisting Rs 6k crore land

BANGALORE: A major land scam worth nearly Rs 6,000 crore,

involving about 2,000 acres at the foothills of Chamundi Hills in
Mysore, has been unearthed.
Mysore deputy commissioner P S Vastrad is in the spotlight for
illegally delisting in June nearly 2,000 acres of prime government
land in favour of the Mysore royal family. The land in question is
1,541 acres in Kurubaralli, 259 acres in Chowdahalli and 173 acres
in Alanahalli. The market value of an acre in these areas is between
Rs 1 crore and Rs 3 crore.
Some top state BJP leaders and influential religious leaders are said
be behind the illegal conversion of the land from 'B' kharab to 'A'
kharab. According to the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964, 'B'
kharab land is property reserved for a public purpose. Any
conversion of this to 'A' kharab - making it private property - needs
government authorization. But Vastrad passed the order without
bringing it to the notice of the government.
"This happened when DV Sadananda Gowda as chief minister held
more than 20 portfolios, including revenue. Lack of monitoring in
the revenue department enabled the deputy commissioner to
change the format," government sources said. Following
complaints against the change in land use, deputy chief minister in
charge of revenue K S Eshwarappa ordered a probe by chief
secretary S V Ranganath, who has given a report indicting Vastrad
of being "guilty of misconduct".
The land was mentioned as kharab in survey records dating back to
1861. Later, during a resurvey between 1920 and 1930, the same
land was shown as 'B' kharab.
"It appears the DC executed the order in undue haste. Any decision
with respect to such land can only be taken by the government
under Section of 86 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act. The
delisting of land from 'B' kharab to 'A' kharab without considering
the original survey records of 1861 is illegal," the chief secretary
said in his report.
Sources in the government said the Mysore royal family had been
claiming right over the land after the death of the Mysore Maharaja
in 1974, but several orders of the department of personal and
administrative reforms clearly state the land belongs to the

government. "The heir of the last Maharaja had been raising

disputes. Due to this and multiple litigation, unscrupulous elements
are trying to falsify records to gain control over this precious land,"
they added.
Interestingly, the DC withdrew his June order on August 18 on
being indicted. Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court ordered the
status quo.
Chief minister Jagadish Shettar, who wanted to suspend Vastrad, is
said to have dropped the idea following pressure from top BJP
leaders. The government feels that shunting him out at a time
when Dasara preparations are under way would mar the festivities.
"I will urge the CM to convene a meeting and take action against
the DC," Eshwarappa told TOI.

DC Vastrad yielded to real estate lobby: MLC

Mysore: BJP MLC G Madhusudan on Friday accused Mysore DC P S

Vastrad of succumbing to the real estate lobby in a case related to
some 2,000-acre land at the foothills of Chamundi Hills.
He has complained to CM Jagadish Shettar in this regard. The BJP
leader has also asked for a stay on the proceedings following the
order by Vastrad.
In his complaint to Shettar, the MLC said: "The land at the foothills
is quite precious and costs several thousand crores as per the
present market... You are requested to go through the documents
and take up investigation into the matter." In the strongly-worded
letter, he has told the CM that "people are alleging that the DC has
succumbed to the real estate lobby."
Releasing the copies of his petition, and that of related documents
to the media on Friday, Madhusudan asked the CM to intervene.
According to him, the court of the deputy commissioner has
declared it as B-kharab land and has directed the authorities
concerned to issue khathas in the name of Srikantadatta
Narasimharaaja Wadiyar, the scion of Mysore royal family and other
respondents. In 1935 -- when Maharaja was ruling the state -- the
said land was declared as B-kharab, which remained the same all
these years. In fact, Maharajas Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar and
Jayachamaraja Wadiyar wanted that to be maintained as a green

belt to guard the sanctity of the sacred site. "To ensure this,
maharaja Jayachamaraja Wadiyar did not make any attempt to
register the property in his name till his death," he contended,
adding that he didn't even go in for partition of the land in
Kurburhalli.
Claiming that it is a public property, the MLC accused the DC of
taking arbitrary decisions. "First of all, he can't review any
decisions made in the district magistrate court. Secondly, he has to
call public objections or have to seek opinion of public prosecutor
before conversion of land from B-kharab (unusable land) to Akharab, which he has not done."
"There real estate lobby is behind it to usurp the property which
needs to be probed," the BJP leader said. He, however, was evasive
when asked to name those involved. When asked whether district
minister S A Ramdas is aware of it, he accused him of being
negligent on the issue.
Meanwhile, deputy CM K S Eshwarappa, who also holds the revenue
portfolio, said that he has convened a high-level meeting, and
directed both the DC and the MLC to attend the same.

BMIC by NICE & land scams in Karnataka an appeal to

honourable supreme court of India & H.E.Honourable Governor Of
Karnataka

When a crime is noticed , it is the duty of the government to

investigate who did it ? and to legally prosecute them in court &
provide justice . if thousands of criminals , lakhs of criminals got
together & did the same type of crimes , all of them must be legally
prosecuted. Just for the overwhelming numbers of criminals law of
the land cann't be changed. However in the Karnataka state ,
many political bigwigs , rich crooks have done the same crime ,
LAND GRABBING illegal possession of government land & illegal
constructions over it. Important land records of those government
lands , lands belonging to poor are lost in record rooms of civic
bodies ( cunningly destroyed by corrupt officials ) Now, their
political masters are legalizing the crimes . what a shame to the
government of Karnataka ?

The shri.A.T. RAMA SWAMY , (M.L.A) standing committee in the

Previous legislative assembly probed the land grabbings in
Karnataka & gave it's report to the government . However the
government in a hurry , is auctioning off those government lands
without proper publicity to the auction process , sufficient time for
bidder's expression of interest. In some cases , a pittance is levied
as penalty for the illegal occupation to get it legalized. The
government is not bothered about legally prosecuting the illegal
occupier of those lands. In many civic bodies , important property
documents belonging to the government & poor are missing from
the record rooms. All these point towards the government intention
, to legalise the crimes of illegal land occupiers who are nothing
but their own political cronies.

The recent ordinance by government of Karnataka to regularize

land deals is envisaging to legalize the crimes of rich. The illegal
land conversions , land encroachments , encroachment of civic
amenities made by the rich are being legalized with levying a
pittance as penalty in the name of public welfare . Whereas the
land worth at today's market prices are 10's of thousands of crore
it is only wefare of the rich & mighty . IT IS GOING TO BE MOTHER
OF ALL SCAMS. The authorities evict poor tribal people from their
ancestral forest area in the name of conservation , evict tribal
people from villages in the name of development without proper
rehabilitation measures. The government is not giving land rights
to slum dwellers , poor , dalits over the land they are dwelling , the
government is deaf to appeals of dalits for land rights. However the
same government is sympathetic to rich who have encroached land
& built huge commercial complexes worth crores violating all norms
with total disregard to civic amenity or safety.

ILLEGALITIES IN AUCTION OF M/S IDEAL JAWA LTD MYSORE

During the auction of above sick industry the land usage was for
industrial purpose only. so, people with other commercial
objectives were not allowed to participate in the auction. Thereby,
the final auctioned amount was very much less than the market
value. This has a direct bearing on employees of that industry ,
lending banks , govt dept , etc who have all put forward their

claims for dues from that industry. noW, all of them are getting
very much less than what is due from the closed company. A loss of
crores of rupees to banks , government , employees has been made
by the cunningness of civic bodies.
Now in a backdoor move the M.U.D.A , K.I.A.D.B , M.C.C are moving
to give land usage conversion to the new occupier, who is building
posh villas & resorts here. Is it right & justified ? should not they
conduct auction once again or charge market value to the new
owner.

LAND MAFIA IN KARNATAKA

The land mafia which has links with political leadership & top govt
servants in the state, is running business widely in & around
bangalore,mysore & other major towns. The authorities like city
corporation , B.D.A, M.U.D.A , K.I.A.D.B , etc are denotifying the
lands meant for public welfare in favour of land mafia. The
authorities have earmarked these lands for public welfare ie parks ,
schools , hospitals at the planning stage itself for current & future
needs of the people. In most cases the land mafia has illegally
occupied the lands , built commercial complexes & sold it for crores
of rupees.

1. the authorities are not demolishing these illegal structures &

prosecuting the occupiers.

2. In some cases the authorities are denotifying , regularizing those

illegal occupations by levying a pittance as penalty which is very
much less than the market value.

3. In some cases for example a notified site for school is alloted to

an educational trust. They build 2 rooms in 25% of the site & state
that this is free school meant for weaker sections. After a year or
two , they state before the authority that to run this school they

need funds. So they are planning to build commercial complexes

around the school site & by the rent collected from shops they will
run the school. In this manner sites meant for schools , hospitals ,
temples & other social organisations apply for conversion of land
usage & use major portion of the land for commercial purposes.

Hereby , e-voice urges the govt of karnataka & other authorities ,

1. to clearly demarcate the govt lands & announce it boldly to the

public.

2. To clearly demarcate lands meant for public amenities both for

current & future usage.

3. To clearly demarcate lands required for town planning say 20

years down the line.

4. To clearly mention in such plans the purpose it is reserved for ie

parks , hospitals , schools , etc.

5. To impartially act against illegal occupiers rich or poor.

6. Say while denotifying a land meant for school an alternate land

for school must be incorporated in the original plan.

7. Before denotification public objections must be called for &

considered responsibly.

8. After denotification the land must be sold at the market rate not
the govt rate.

9. In case of land usage conversion also the objections from the

public must be called for & considered responsibly.

10. After land usage conversion an alternate land must be

incorporated in the plan for the original use.

11. In case of land usage conversion also the occupier must be

charged at the market value.

12. To declare annually the property details of all officials with

denotifying / land usage conversion authorities together with
details of their family member's properties with provision for public
scrutiny, cross checking.

13. To ruthlessly prosecute the corrupt officials & ministers.

14. To make public the report of past district magistrate mysore mr.
T.M. VIJAYA BHASKAR about illegal land dealings in & around
mysore. Also the action taken report.

ILLEGALITIES IN BANGALORE-MYSORE EXPRESSWAY PROJECT BMIC

by NICE

Different political parties are trading charges against each other

about illegalities in the mysore-bangalore expressway project.
Grave mistakes have been committed by the previous state
governments. The saving grace is judiciary has taken note of it. The

fundamental principle behind land acquisitions by the governments

is to use that acquired lands for public welfare. As the govt
acquires the land with this noble intentions even the land looser
contents himself with compensation at govt rate. Always the govt
rate is much below market value. If at all the govt wants to give out
that acquired land to a private party for private use or for the use
of a selected few, the govt must give prevailing market rate to the
land looser. In such cases the govt does not have authority to force
the land owner to sell his property.

In this mysore-bangalore 4 lane expressway project, following

inconsistencies are there,

1. this road is not for free public use, but only for those who pays
the toll fees.

2. The luxurious resorts , townships , etc which are to be built

alongside this road are not open for free public usage but only for
the rich who can afford it.

3.

The govt has concluded this deal in a hush-hush manner.

4. Any disputes raised by this project should be addressed to

international arbiter at london which a poor land owner or general
public can ill-afford.

5. The govt has not paid the prevailing market value to the land
loosers.

6. The govt has not given the option to land owners not to sell
their property.

7.
This whole project is for rich , built by the rich for the rich &
not meant for public welfare.

The govt must give back the lands to the owners who wants it back
& must pay the market value to those willing to sell. As this project
is built by wealthy people for wealthy people why cann't they
cough- up market value?

CRIMES BY BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ( B.D.A)

AGAINST A POOR WOWAN

The B.D.A flouts it's own rules & spreads red carpet for big land
developers & land grabbers. B.D.A posting is a huge money spinner
for corrupt officials. The corrupt B.D.A officials work hand in glove
with criminal elements & rowdies. They illegally evict genuine
allottees who are poor & without any connections from allotted
prime lands & sell-off those prime land to the highest bidder of
bribe. The poor fellow is re-alloted lands in backward areas & in
some cases left in the lurch.

Now , take the following case. Mr. S.D. chandrashekaraiah a poor

old man aged around 80 years was allotted with house no.185,
kumaraswamy lay-out, first block, bangalore in 1978 vide letter no.
310/267/BDA/ADM/KMRSL(H)/78-79 dt 11/08/1978.

The chairman of B.D.A has allotted the built house on lease cum
sale basis. The poor old man mr. S.D.chandrashekaraiah complied
with all the rules & in accordance with it even deposited 25% of the
house cost in B.D.A'S account. However when he went over to his
allotted house for residing in it, he found out some rowdy elements
were already residing there. He complained about this matter to
the legal owner of the house ie B.D.A . the B.D.A officials didn't

take steps to evict the illegal encroachers nor did they make any
complaint to the police. His appeals to B.D.A, chief minister of
karnataka , etc fell on deaf ears. Hurt by this gross injustice &
mounting financial burdens the poor old man died.

Subsequently, the poor man's daughter smt. Nagalakshmi who was

also very poor , appealed to the B.D.A authorities once again , to
evict illegal encroachers from her father's allotted house. This time
the corrupt B.D.A officials played a different game. They showed
her a vacant house, gave her oral instructions to live in that vacant
house & told her that they will regularise it in due course. The
hapless poor woman took huge loans & repaired the house fit for
occupation. Just before she was to occupy that house , corrupt
B.D.A officials once again planted rowdy elements in that house.
Once again the poor woman was cheated. She lost her house, on
top of it her loan burden mounted.

Till date, that poor woman is suffering from these gross injustices
of B.D.A . SHAMELESS B.D.A OFFICIALS who take thousands of
rupees salary & perks every month, all at the expense of tax-payer
has not even cared to rectify the injustice. Thereby, they are
violating the poor woman's fundamental & human rights.

Hereby, e-voice urges the honourable chief minister of karnataka,

honourable lokayuktha for karnataka , honourable chairman
national human rights commission , honourable chairman national
commission for women & honourable chairman state commission
for women karnataka, to take the appropriate action & to speedily
provide justice to this poor woman.

MLC alleges encroachment of 15,000 acres of forest land in

Chamarajanagar District

After exposing alleged encroachment of large areas of land in Survey No. 4

of Kurubarahalli in Mysore, BJP MLC G. Madhusudhan has come up with
another exposure of about 15,000 acres of forest land encroachment in
Chamarajanagar District. These lands were encroached by private parties
owing to an order passed by a former Deputy Commissioner.
This was disclosed
Pathrakarthara

by

MLC G. Madhusudan at a
Bhavan
here

press

meet at
today.

Elaborating on the issue, Madhusudan said The 15,000 acres of land covers
Survey No. 1 in Palya Hobli of Kollegal taluk and Survey No. 174 in
Shivanasamudra forest area in Chamarajanagar district. In fact, Kollegal
Assistant Commissioner, in an order passed through the DC Court on Dec.
13, 2011, had reiterated that the said area was a government forest land.
However the then DC M.V. Savithri bowing to the pressure of a few vested
interests had issued an order on July 8 stating that the said land was not a
government property which subsequently let in many private parties to
encroach upon the land threatening the rich flora and fauna of the forest
region.
Continuing, Madhusudan said that any such important order should have
come from the High Court. Hence he urged the government to initiate a CBI
inquiry into the case by cancelling the former DCs order and booking her
for
criminal
offence.
Expressing apprehension that the forest land would become a haven for
land mafia, he alleged that former Senior Police officials, rich industrialists
and influential politicians were involved in the deal. He, however, did not
mention
names.
Madhusudan said that he would submit a detailed letter to the Chief Minister
enclosing the relevant documents to initiate immediate action.
Referring to the scam of land at the foot of Chamundi Hill, Madhusudan said
that he was happy that a departmental enquiry would begin soon on the
former Deputy Commissioner Vastrad who was involved in the issue.

BDA a den of corruption: T B Jayachandra

Author: BDA a Den of Corruption

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Published Date: Jul 28, 2012 8:48 AM

Last Updated: Jul 28, 2012 8:48 AM

Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has become a den of corruption

and the government needs to take steps to check large scale irregularities
in the authority, said Deputy Leader of Congress in the Assembly T B
Jayachandra.
Speaking on the demands on departments in the Assembly, the Congress
leader on Friday urged the government to constitute a House Committee to
look into the irregularities.
The BDA has unlawfully de-notified hundreds of acres of land to help
builders to form private layouts.
It is a big business involving hundreds of crore of rupees, he alleged.
He added that many people whose lands were acquired for developing
layouts were made to run from pillar to post to get compensation.
Many allottees have to run around seeking alternate site as in many
instances after allotting sites to people the BDA de-notifies land, he said.
Jayachandra said that during a recent visit to BDAs Arkavathy layout, he
found a big building in the land meant for developing a park.
It is a 10-year-old project.
Now all that has come up there are buildings in the site meant for park and
an IAS Officers House Building Cooperative Society.
BDA has allotted sites in bulk to the society.
Why is BDA selectively helping officers and not common people? he
questioned.
Jayachandra said that former chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda had
assured the House of ordering a probe by Corps of Detectives (CoD).
Why the CoD inquiry was not ordered? Is the government trying to protect
the corrupt? Everyone knows no work can be done in BDA without paying
bribe, he added.
According to him, will get `2 lakh crore if it regularises the illegal BDA
layouts.

Many real estate agents are entering into politics and want to contest
elections.
This is a big lobby and they can spend crores.
It is a scary trend and we need to stop it, he added.

CCTV cameras in BDA are covered with cow dung

The government will cancel alternative land and sites allotted by the
Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) in prestigious extensions in lieu
of private land acquired for the development of Sir. M. Visvesvaraya, Kempe
Gowda, Jnanabharathi and Banashankari extensions.
Making an announcement in this regard in the Legislative Assembly, Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah promised to order a probe into alleged violation of
norms and irregularities committed by BDA and punish the guilty.
Responding to a calling attention notice moved by S.T. Somashekar, K.N.
Rajanna and K. Shadakshari of the Congress, Mr. Siddaramaiah admitted
that there were illegalities and irregularities in allocation of sites and land
for the land acquired in BDA.
The government would order a probe into the scam and action would be
initiated against those involved in it. He would direct the senior officials to
inquire into the misuse of incentive scheme of allotting land for land losers.
Irregularities in revenue land scam would also be probed and all allotments
made under this category would be cancelled forthwith, Mr. Siddaramaiah
said.
Detailing the allotment made by BDA since 2008, Mr. Siddaramaiah said
that 3,314 sites had been allotted under the categories of alternative sites,
incentive schemes, land to land and revenue sites. The government will not
spare anybody who has misused the schemes in connivance with the
officials, he said.
Initiating the debate, Mr. Somashekar alleged that BDA had flouted norms
while allotting sites and land for acquisition of land without notification.
BDA officials used the scheme to their convenience, which are meant for
helping the poor farmers and land owners, he lamented.

Accusing BDA of generously giving sites and land to GPA holders in posh
localities, Mr. Rajanna, alleged that the authority had not followed guidelines
and officials allotted sites and land at their whims and fancies. The close
circuit cameras installed in BDA are being covered with cow dung to gloss
the murky dealings. It is scam worth Rs. 1,000 crore and needs
comprehensive investigation, he said.
Violation of order
Pointing at the violation of Mr. Siddaramaiahs order, Mr. Rajanna said that,
through the Chief Minister issued order against allotting sites and land
under the category on July 11, BDA allotted six sites on the same evening
and issued possession certificates on July 13. This clearly exhibits the
uncanny knack of BDA officials to circumvent the directions of the Chief
Minister and shows that BDA was above government, he observed.

Reclaim 308 G category sites, says Padmaraj panel

BANGALORE: In a big blow to allottees of G category sites, the Justice B

Padmaraj Committee recommended to the state government it cancel and
reclaim 308 sites allotted under the chief minister's discretionary quota.
These sites in prime localities were allotted between 2004 and 2011.
Three beneficiaries, who have already constructed houses, have been asked
to cough up twice the current market price of the sites if they want to retain
them.

The panel has reserved its decision on two sites allotted to former CM DV
Sadananda Gowda and BJP MLA DN Jeevaraj as their cases are pending
before the Supreme Court.
In all, 313 sites/plots were allotted under G category of BDA rules by
previous CMs N Dharam Singh, HD Kumaraswamy and BS Yeddyurappa. The
beneficiaries included a present minister, MPs, MLAs, MLCs, political party
leaders, bureaucrats, police officers, doctors, journalists and even personal
assistants, cooks, drivers and peons of powerful politicians.
In Mysore on Saturday, chief minister Siddaramaiah said he would study the
report and take necessary action.

Based on a petition filed in 2010 by advocate Vasudev Murthy, the

Karnataka High Court directed the state government to form a committee to
look into the matter and submit a report. Accordingly, the government
constituted the Justice B Padmaraj Committee. By then, many allottees who
bagged these prime sites worth crores of rupees had sold their plots in the
open market for 10 times that amount.
Though the panel submitted its report on August 26, 2013, the government
has dithered taking action. Though the issue was part of the agenda in
cabinet meetings, it was kept aside reportedly under pressure from the
beneficiaries.
There are even allegations of beneficiaries influencing chief minister
Siddaramaiah to bring an amendment to the Bangalore Development
Authority (BDA) Act, 1976 so that they can hold on to their sites.
According to BDA rules, a person who owns a site or a house in Bangalore is
not eligible for allotment under the G category. But, the majority of
beneficiaries owned a site or house in the city. The committee report has
pointed out that persons who gave a false declaration on this count should
forfeit their sites.
Some prominent allottees
Visveshwar Anantha Hegde Kageri (BJP)
Murugesh R Nirani (BJP)
MP Renukacharya (BJP)
Prahalad Joshi (BJP)
R Roshan Baig (Cong)
R Ashoka (BJP)
Sharan Prakash Patil (Cong)
Shakuntala Shetty (BJP)
MT Krishnappa (JDS)
M Srinivas (JDS)
G category site

Rule 5 of BDA (Allotment of Sites) Rules, 1984, lays out various categories
under which it can dispose of stray sites. There are seven categories: A (via
auction), B (for sportspersons), C (for those who excel in arts, science,
literature, education, medicine and public administration), D (for exservicemen); F (for dependents of government servants who die in the line
of duty) and G (for persons in public life as may be directed by the
government). While A, B C, D, E & F category sites are allotted on the
recommendation of a BA sub-committee, G category site allotments are the
prerogative and discretion of the chief minister.
Who is eligible
* Domiciled in Karnataka for not less than 10 years

* Neither allottee nor family should own a site or house in Bangalore

metropolitan area
* Allottee or family should not have been allotted a site or house by the
BDA, or any other authority within Bangalore metropolitan area. Allottee has
to submit affidavit to this effect

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Ex-MUDA chairmen feel heat over site scam

Former chairmen of Mandya Urban Development Authority (MUDA) are in a

state of panic as the Urban Development Department has sent a proposal to
the Home Department seeking a CBI probe into illegal financial transactions
and distribution of sites.
Ten days ago, the Urban Development Department had sent a letter to the
Home Department seeking it to hand over the investigation of the

irregularities
in
MUDA
and
Ramanagaram-Channapatana
Development Authority to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Urban

The Police Department has already submitted the preliminary report to the
court.
As money was invested in foreign banks, huge irregularities had taken place
in the site allotment.
Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake had provided details of
the irregularities to the Home Ministry and requested them to hand over the
case to the CBI.
In 1998, the then irrigation minister K N Nagegowda had closed a lake (432
acres, 10 guntas) belonging to the department and handed over 232 acres
and 10 guntas to MUDA and 200 acres to the Housing Board for construction
of houses for the poor and middle classes.
The then MUDA chairman P M Somashekar took a loan of `5 crore from State
Bank of Mysore, Mandya branch, and through a contractor from Andhra
Pradesh developed Vivekananda Nagar layout with 2,600 sites in the 232
acres.
Later, when Asadulla Khan was MUDA chairman, 2,200 sites were
distributed through lots.
When Hansiyabanu was MUDA chairman, under the Nimma Aayke scheme,
200 sites were distributed.
During the BJP government, MUDA chairman Vidya Nagendra had
distributed 107 sites even be fore the final date for the submission of
applications.
This illegal distribution of sites was also discussed at the Vidhana Soudha.
Advocate T S Satyananda had lodged a case against three members of the
Legislative Assembly and several others in the Mandya Lokayukta Special
Court for illegal distribution of sites. The government had directed the
authorities to withhold the distribution.
Recently, financial irregularities of Rs 5 crore in MUDA and Rs 16.90 crore by
the Ramanagaram-Channapatna Urban Development Authority have come
to light.
The local police investigated the case and filed a chargesheet.

The minister said: We have sent a proposal to hand over the case to the
CBI. In a few days, with the CMs approval, the case will be handed over.

Probe panel yet to scratch surface of MUDA irregularities

Its been a month since a high-level committee was formed to probe

allegations of irregularities in land acquired by Mangalore Urban
Development Authority (MUDA) for Chelyar Layout. It is operational only on
paper.
The grandiose plan of MUDA to form a layout and distribute sites to
applicants at Chelyar and Madya villages near Surathkal comes at a cost:
Rs. 75,000 monthly outgo to service a Rs. 12 crore loan taken for it.
In an order sent by the Urban Development Department, on August 5, a
committee was to deliver a report on the legality of the project within 15
days. The committee is headed by Regional Commissioner (Mysore) M.V.
Jayanthi, with Deputy Commissioner N. Prakash and Deputy Director of Land
Records B.K. Kusumadhara as members.
After allegations that the price paid for the land in 2008 was too high and
favourable to private players, Minister for Urban Development Vinay Kumar
Sorake promised a probe in June.
The project envisaged buying 200 acres of private land at an agreed rate of
Rs. 25,500 a cent. After the approval of the erstwhile BJP-led government,
nearly 73 acres of land had been bought.
Unscientific project
While most MUDA officials who talked to The Hindu claimed to have been
transferred to the Authority only after site formation, one senior official said:
The entire project was approved by the State government. And so, in this
respect, the papers are clean. However, there is a need to ask why the
ambitious layout was formed when the Authority was reeling under debt.
Already burdened with a Rs. 4 crore loan, in 2008, MUDA took an additional
Rs. 12 crore.

Many officials view the inquiry as a political witch-hunt: aimed at the nowout-of-power party, rather than the Authority itself.
Report soon
With not one meeting called so far, Mr. Kusumadhara said there was little
clarity on the scope of inquiry.
However, the Deputy Commissioner said, We only have to clear the
suspicions. We will collect the required documents, and present it before the
Regional Commissioner during her visit on September 12.

MUDA employees booked for forgery, cheating

MYSORE: Mysore Urban Development Authorities (MUDA) have filed a police

complaint against one P Nagaraj son of Puttaswamygowda and two
employees of MUDA staff who supported the accused in creating fake
documents at Lakshmipuram police station.
MUDA commissioner C G Betsurmath said a site in Gokulam III stage was
allotted to one M K Ranganayaki in 1973 through auction and she had
obtained title deed in 2002. But in the meantime, the accused Nagaraj has
created fake documents about the site and made the authorities believe
that he had purchased the said land in 1979 in an auction. Later he has
taken title deed for it and then sold it to another party.

But the crime has come to light after the actual owner approached the
authorities only recently. When the documents were verified, MUDA
authorities found that site number has been forged from 37 to 73.
The commissioner said the title deed of the said site obtained by Nagaraj
has been cancelled and we are investigating on this score.
Krishnaraja subdivision ACP A N Prakashgowd said MUDA has given against
three persons and we are investigating it.

DLF-Robert Vadra controversy: LAND SCAM

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Probe into bogus bill scam will cover larger picture: BMTF

Bangalore: Attempting to clear the air on speculations regarding the alleged

multi-crore bogus bill scam in three assembly constituencies, Bangalore
Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) inspector general of police RP Sharma said
the investigation will not be restricted to Rajarajeshwarinagar, Gandhinagar
and Malleswaram constituencies. The probe will also include other areas, he
clarified.
Speaking at the BBMP head office on Wednesday, Sharma said even though
the FIR filed on November 4 by the additional commissioner (administration)
pertains to only three constituencies, sleuths will look into other areas if
necessary. "The C(TVCC) had mentioned only three constituencies in its
report pertaining to irregularities from 2008 to 2011. The FIR was only an
instrument to take up investigation, but it does not restrict us from taking
up the investigation in other areas," he said.

Town planners' help to be sought

He said even though there is a delay in filing a case, BMTF is trying to clear
all hurdles and expose those involved in the scam. The BMTF has seized 153
files pertaining to the irregularities from the three constituencies. Eleven
persons and TVCC officials were interrogated and 153 files verified by
sleuths in 20 days, Sharma said.

Reacting to a question raised on BMTF's ability to investigate financial

crimes and demand to hand over the probe to the Lokayukta, Sharma said
the sleuths would seek help from town planners. Currently, there are only
two town planners of the 15 sanctioned posts. The investigation team will
also include a superintendent of police, deputy superintendent of police
(who will join the team shortly), two inspectors, four sub-inspectors and 15
head constables. A fair and impartial investigation would be conducted by
the investigation team, he assured.
"We can ascertain the quantum of money that is involved in the scam only
after the investigation," Sharma said.
BBMP commissioner Siddaiah entrusted the BMTF to carry out inquiry into
the `1,539 crore scam after it was unearthed by the TVCC. The BMTF is an
autonomous agency under the state government. It is alleged that bills were
sanctioned even though works were not completed in the three assembly
constituencies. The irregularities took place during the administrative period
when BBMP remained without people's representation. With no corporators,
MLAs looked after project works in the wards. The elections to BBMP were
held in 2010 after a gap of three years.
Last Friday, leaders of the ruling and opposition parties and civic officials
participated in a two-hour meeting called by BBMP mayor R Shardamma to
discuss the probe. It was decided to set up a house committee, consisting of
five ruling party corporators, two from the opposition and two officials, to
investigate the scam, before BMTF took up the case. The move was seen as
a delaying tactic by the ruling party in the BBMP council.RK Sharma, IGP,
Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force, after a press conference at Bruhat
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike headquarters on Wednesday.

Bangalore: BMTF Registers FIR Against Suresh Kumar, Krishnaiah

Setty

The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force has registered an FIR against

Minister for Urban Development Suresh Kumar, former Housing Minister M
Krishnaiah Setty and senior IAS officer V P Baligar for allegedly returning
four acres 20 guntas of land, which was acquired by the government under
the Karnataka Urban Land Ceiling Act to construct houses for the slum
dwellers at Laggere, to the original owner.

The case was lodged based on a complaint by Dinesh Kallalli, a social

worker, who stated that Kumar, in his capacity as Urban Development
Minister, granted permission to return the land to the original owner, while
then Housing Minister Krishnaiah Setty halted the process of constructing
houses for the urban poor.
The BMTF has registered a case against the trio under Sections 13 (1) and
13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and Section 157 of the CrPC
on Saturday. Kallalli told Deccan Herald that in 1982, the government
acquired 4.2 acres of excess land in survey number 19/2, which belonged to
K Gopinath to build houses for the financially weaker and downtrodden
people. In 2003, the Karnataka Slum Development Board (KSDB) started the
process of constructing houses.
When the process reached the stage of inviting tenders, the Yeddyurappa
government took the decision to return the land to the original owner.
It is learnt that under the Karnataka Urban Land Ceiling Act, no one can hold
more than 59 acres of land and the excess land should be confiscated.
Gopinath had reportedly possessed 4.2 acres in excess, which the
government took it in its custody in 1982. Once the land is in governments
custody, it cannot be returned to its original owner, although the
government has the power to allot it to other individuals.
Kallalli alleged that the decision was taken to help Gopinath, who is the
brother of senior RSS functionary K Narahari. He claimed that the KSDB had
objected to the decision, reminding that it was not only illegal, but would
also affect the weaker sections of the society. The board also said that the
tender process was almost over.
However, the government set aside the objections of the KSDB and the
tender process to construct houses. When contacted, Kumar said he had no
information about the case since he was away in Bellary. He said he would
find out once he returned to Bangalore.
A few months ago, Kumar had tendered his resignation after it was alleged
that his family was the beneficiary of a G category site. However, the chief
minister refused to accept the resignation as no substance was found in the
allegation.
Setty, who was in jail over a land denotification case, is out on bail. Baligar
is the Managing Director of Housing Urban Development Company (HUDCO)
in New Delhi.

When contacted Dr R P Sharma, Additional Director General of Police, BMTF

was not available for comments.

JUDGES COVER-UP LAND SCAMS

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MUDA LAND IS EASY GRAB !

RTI exposes 4-storey apartment built on MUDAs encroached land

Caption: RTI activist B.N. Nagendra

Mysore, Jan. 8- With the land value in city shooting to the skies, the land
mafia continues to encroach upon vacant government lands through
dubious means. Despite the land-grabbers encroaching upon the
government lands and building multi-storey buildings upon them, the
Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) and Mysore City Corporation
(MCC) authorities are sitting tongue-tied and hands tied, which has further
emboldened the land grabbers who are hand in glove with some
unscrupulous officials to create fake records.
It has come to light of late that fake documents were created for two MUDA
sites in Chikkaharadanahalli (Aravindanagar) First Stage at Chamaraja
Mohalla, on which a four-storey building with 12 apartments have been
constructed and all of them are occupied now.
The alleged fraud came to light after an RTI activist B.N. Nagendra, resident
of Yadavagiri in city, sought information about the building from the MUDA.
The two sites measuring 50x80 ft in Aravindanagar are close to
Kuvempunagar. MUDA had formed the layout during 1988-89. At that time,
Sites No. 700 and 701 in Chikkaharadanahalli First Stage were not allotted
to anyone.
In reply to the Nagendras query under the RTI provisions, the MUDA Public
Information Officer replied that MUDA had no records or documents to say
that the said two sites were not allotted to anyone.

The sites were formed during 1988-89 and the building on it is eight years
old. So, does it mean that the MUDA authorities were blind to the
encroachment all these years? Or, is it that they are not aware that the sites
belong to the MUDA? Or, does it imply that they are involved with the landgrabber?
The MUDA does not have records of allotment, possession certificate, sale
deed, Khata-revenue letter or receipts for cash transactions made. However,
the City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) ledger shows the names of
Chikkathayamma, resident of No. 818, New Kantharaj Urs Road, Mysore,
along with Mahadevamma, Lakshmi and N. Shivakumar, residents of No.
555 of the same address, written by hand. The ledger shows that the two
sites were purchased for a mere sum of Rs. 39,366 on April 4, 1988; the
Khata and revenue have been fixed based on this document alone. The
building was constructed by getting the building plan approved in the
names of Mahadevamma and Chikkathayamma. The four-storied building is
named as Shashank Paradise.
The site and building was inspected this morning by MUDA Superintending
Engineer Shivakumar, Zonal Officer of Zone-1 Bhaskar and other MUDA
officials. The 12 families residing in the flats are now an anxious lot after
realising that they have been cheated and they do not possess relevant
documents for the flats they purchased.
Some of the residents of the building whom SOM spoke to said that they had
purchased the apartments based on sale agreements and paid Rs. 25 to Rs.
35 lakhs in advance. They confessed that the low prices lured them to buy
the apartments as the actual price in that area was much higher. Each
apartment has a master-bedroom, another smaller room, a living room, puja
room, kitchen and a toilet.
Meanwhile, MUDA Commissioner S. Palaiah told SOM that he will investigate
the matter and take suitable action.

Muda Land Encroachment: Criminal Case Booked against Housing

Society President

Mysore, Sept. 20- In view of the allegation of encroaching 27 guntas of

MUDA land close to Vijayanagar 2nd Stage, the Vijayanagar Police have
booked a case against the President of Sri Mahadeshwara House
Construction Co-operative Society, R. Shankare Gowda.
A written complaint filed by MUDA Zone 4 Zonal Officer R. Rajashekhar
yesterday, following which a case was registered by Sub-Inspector Kumar.
The land is a portion of the land under survey number 120 in Hinkal,
measuring 3.25 acres. Out of this, 1.16 acres of land was acquired on June
20, 1974 under LAC 10. Remaining 2.09 acres was acquired by MUDA from
one Puttathayamma through mutual agreement on Oct. 31, 1985.
A 1.14 acre land was given to the Karnataka Water Board where a road and
park have been developed. The remaining area lies vacant, of which
Shankare Gowda allegedly created fake documents to stake claim on 23
guntas of land in the name of the Housing Society.
RTI activist B.N. Nagendra had sought information about the said land under
the Right to Information (RTI) Act which brought to light the alleged
irregularity.
Response to MLA Vasus letter: Chamarajanagar MLA Vasu had written a
letter to Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, urging him to
probe the irregularities in sites allotment, suspecting the involvement of
some MUDA officials.
The Minister directed the Urban Development Department Secretary to
probe the matter, who in turn asked the MUDA Commissioner to submit a
report regarding the allegations. A directive was issued to the DC too to

probe the matter, following which a complaint was lodged against the
Housing Society President.

Bid to usurp MUDA corner site using fake documents

With the real estate prices in city skyrocketing, efforts to usurp sites and
government land by hook or by crook are on too, despite several
precautionary measures taken up by the MUDA.
Here is an incident of a person trying to acquire a corner site in
Jayalakshmipuram, measuring 110x120 ft, by not paying a single paisa to
MUDA but by merely paying Rs. 27,540 in an auction. The matter came to
light when a citizen named B.N. Nagendra applied for information under the
Right To Information (RTI) Act. It is said that he took interest in digging out
information about the site after an acquaintance of his disclosed about the
fraudulent deal.
Thanks to the efforts of MUDA Secretary Basavaraju who made meticulous
investigations of the documents, the MUDA property worth several crores
was saved from being usurped.
The site is in Jayalakshmipuram, which was formed about 40 years ago. It is
a corner site off the road leading to The Green Hotel on Hunsur road. The
site bears the number 23/A, having site number 23 towards the east,
another site on the north and roads on the western and southern sides.
The fraud was committed by Raju, 60, a resident of Paduvarahalli 2nd Main,
Door No. 54. He is said to have forged the signature of MUDA Zone 4 Special

Tahasildar Devaraj and also used a duplicate rubber stamp for the fake
documents.
The truth is that no auction was held for site no. 23/A. However, the accused
Raju is said to have created fake documents that claimed that he had
purchased the site in an auction for Rs. 27,540 on Jan. 3, 1979. A title-deed
for the site was prepared at Zone 4 office under Form-2 (5) in Kannada
dated Jan.2, 2013.
The site, for which fake documents were prepared in January, was registered
three months later that is on Mar. 22, 2013, at 4.30 pm, at the SubRegistrars office in MUDA. It is said that the letter written by Special
Tahasildar Devaraj to the Sub-Registrar to get the site registered was also
forged.
Soon after the fraudulent deal came to the fore, MUDA Secretary Basavaraju
placed a signboard at the site four days ago, stating that the land belonged
to the MUDA. A complaint was lodged at the Lakshmipuram Police Station
yesterday.
It is surprising that the title-deed for the site was prepared despite any
auction conducted by the MUDA, no application submitted, no notes written
by the officials concerned and no entry made about cash payment. The
Police have launched a hunt for the accused who is at large.

MUDA employees booked for forgery, cheating

Mysore Urban Development Authorities (MUDA) have filed a police

complaint against one P Nagaraj son of Puttaswamygowda and two
employees of MUDA staff who supported the accused in creating fake
documents at Lakshmipuram police station.
MUDA commissioner C G Betsurmath said a site in Gokulam III stage was
allotted to one M K Ranganayaki in 1973 through auction and she had
obtained title deed in 2002. But in the meantime, the accused Nagaraj has
created fake documents about the site and made the authorities believe
that he had purchased the said land in 1979 in an auction. Later he has
taken title deed for it and then sold it to another party.
But the crime has come to light after the actual owner approached the
authorities only recently. When the documents were verified, MUDA
authorities found that site number has been forged from 37 to 73.
The commissioner said the title deed of the said site obtained by Nagaraj
has been cancelled and we are investigating on this score.
Krishnaraja subdivision ACP A N Prakashgowd said MUDA has given against
three persons and we are investigating it.

Fraudster sells government land, dupes MUDA

The Mysore City Corporation almost lost a huge site because of the
negligence of the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) before the
fraud was discovered in the nick of time.
The accused Krishna had forged documents of 1.13 acres in Survey No 505
in Kesare village and sold it to one Parveez who started constructing a
building when it was stopped by MCC officials. The accused had even got an
NoC to sell the land from MUDA, which did not bother to find out the real
owner.
Krishna is said to be a relative of the man to whom the land originally
belonged before it was acquired by the erstwhile City Improvement Trust
Board (CITB) for civic purposes about 58 years ago.
Finding the land vacant for many decades, the accused created fake
documents and tried to sell it.

Sources in the MCC said that after obtaining information through RTI about
the land, Krishna, along with his relative Chennaiah, obtained an NoC from
MUDA and got the Khata made for the land from the taluk office by
producing fake documents.
The property was registered in Krishnas name in 2009.
Krishna then sold the illegal property to Parveez in 2011-12. After realising
that he had been cheated, Parveez filed a suit in court, getting a permanent
injunction restraining the defendant from interfering with his peaceful
possession of the property.
Revenue Assistant Commissioner R Lokanath said that when he inspected
the place, he found that Parveez had occupied the land and even fenced the
property that belonged to the Corporation. Upon questioning, he produced
the clearances obtained from MUDA, Taluk office and even the court.
After being alerted, MCC officials registered a land grab-cum-cheating
complaint against Krishna and Parveez. They have even approached court
and the case is pending.

THE CLOUT OF LAND MAFIA IN INDIA -the governments daring to

by-pass judiciary
An appeal ( PIL ) to the honourable supreme court of India

The recent attempts by government of India & other state

governments to legalise land grabbings by enacting new land laws
in the name of public welfare is farce . while crores of people are
without shelter & are living on streets , people in slums , tribal
lands are struggling for land rights since decades the governments
were mum & deaf. Now , as the rulers themselves & their cronies
have built illegal constructions running into crores they are
shedding crocodile tears in the name of public welfare. In india,
various state governments have enacted " town municipal / city
corporation laws & building laws" , to ensure orderly growth of

cities & towns , to ensure the safety of buildings & it's occupants ,
to ensure the safety of pedestrians & road users.

Numerous educated people , ruling elite ministers , police ,

government officials , M.Ps , M.L.As , etc knowing fully well about
the laws have illegally built bungalows , commercial complexes ,
throwing to wind all laws. In their greed they have shown utter
contempt towards law. They have encroached dried up lakes ,
rivulets , rain flow paths , drainages , foot paths , civic amenity
sites. In their building there are violations of- lack of fire safety
exits , lack of parking space , encroachment of foot paths ,
conservancy line , drainages , etc.

There is wide spread corruption in the corporation / municipal

authorities. For a price officials have converted CA sites to
commercial purposes , authorised deviations / encroachments of
public
lands like foot paths , drainages , parking space , set-off , etc. The
corporation officials themselves are violating city master plans.
Even before authorising the conversions & encroachments of
lands , the
corporation officials are not making alternate arrangements. By all
these corrupt deeds many of the corporation officilas have become
millionaires . however more & more road accidents are taking place
, building collapses & fire tragedies are occurring , during heavy
rainfalls water is getting clogged ALL THESE RESULTING IN LOSS
OF HUMAN LIVE & PROPERTIES. In recent days numerous murders
have taken place over the real estate issues . THE CRIMINAL LAND
GRABBERS MADE DEATH THREATS & FORCED THE PIL APPLICANT IN
THE KARNATAKA HIGH COURT ABOUT LAND GRABBINGS IN
KORAMANGALA LAYOUT BANGALORE. The government of karnataka
instead of protecting the PIL applicant & upholding the law has
taken sides with the land grabbers.

The state governments of karnataka & delhi has got M.L.As &
officials who have themselves violated building laws & grabbed
govt lands. Now , the two govts are contemplating to bring in laws
regularising these land grabbing crimes for a pittance as penalty.
All to by-pass judiciary. The governments are least bothered about
the lives of poor & only too caring towards the land grabbing
criminals. The same governments have not yet given land rights to
poor slum dwellers / dalits , land rights to tribals living in forest
since centuries , land rights to poor agricultural labourers, where
as it is full of concern towards rich & mighty land grabbers
criminals. Bottom line whatever be the magnitude of crime if you
are rich & mighty law will be bended to suit you , by bad luck if you
are a poor folk you are bound to suffer being on the right side of
law also. Hereby , e-voice urges requests the honourable supreme
court of india , to register this as a PIL , to provide protection to
the PIL applicant in bangalore & to take appropriate actions against
the GOK & GOD nipping at bud their illegal motives to regularise
land grabbings.

Instead of answering our RTI questions , the officials are

giving half truths , vague answers to our questions , some of the
serious questions they are not answering at all. Even Mr. P.
Manivannan past deputy commissioner of Mysore District &
Chairman of MUDA , failed to uphold justice . He threatened me for
asking truth , but he didnt answer the RTI questions. Through
media management he has cultivated a clean public image of
demolishing man of illegal structures , whereas during his time
only some illegal structures were raised.

Due to Criminal nexus of Some MUDA officials Politicians Police ,

these illegal land grabbings are happening , the honest among
MUDA , POLICE & Politicians must raise to the occasion . They
must save government land , first of all ask MUDA Chairman /
commissioner to answer the above RTI Questionnaire publicly.

Hereby , e-voice urges the concerned authorities , to answer the

following questionnaire about BMIC project by NICE

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Hereby ,e-voice appeals to honourable supreme court of India , to

annul the bid process of government of Karnataka with respect to
illegally occupied government lands & to annul this ordinance of
government of Karnataka which seeks to legalize land crimes. Jai
hind . vande mataram.

Your's sincerely,
Nagaraja.M.R.

CID to probe Rs 6,697 crore KIADB denotification scam

Lokayukta directs the agency to submit a report within July 30

Irregularities to the tune of Rs 6,697 crore in land acquisition and
compensation by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board
(KIADB) between 2006 and 2011 - the span of the BJP government - will be
investigated by the CID. The land involved is a whopping 26,674 acres.
A petitioner, Jayakumar Hiremath, filed a complaint with the Lokayukta last
August following a directive from the Karnataka High Court. He had sought a
CBI probe into the issue.
"The matter is now referred for a CID probe," Hiremath told Bangalore
Mirror. "I welcome this. As the deadline is set now, it has set the ball rolling
into the probe."

In an order dated 29 May 2014, A C Vidhyadhar, additional registrar of

enquiries (ARE), Karnataka Lokayukta, has referred it to the CID with a July
30 deadline to submit a report on the case. ''Honourable Lokayukta has
taken up the matter for investigation and requisitioned your services under
section 15 (3) of Karnataka Lokayukta Act for a further investigation and
report.
In this context, I would like to bring to your notice that under sec 15 (3) of
Karnataka Lokayukta Act, the Honourable Lokayukta and Upa Lokayukta can
avail the services of any agency for the purpose of investigation. As the
matter pertained to economic offences, the Honourable Lokayukta has felt it
is necessary to utilize your services for investigation," says the
communication sent by the Lokayukta to the CID, a copy of which is with
Bangalore Mirror.

Karnataka HC summons MD of Karnataka Industrial Areas

Development Board

BANGALORE: Strongly observing that KIADB (Karnataka Industrial Areas

Development Board) has failed to ensure the benefits of land acquisition
reached the targeted groups, including farmers as envisaged in its schemes,
the Karnataka high court has directed the managing director (MD) of the
board to appear before court on Friday.
A division bench headed by Justice K L Manjunath gave an oral direction to
this effect while hearing a writ appeal filed by two persons whose lands
were acquired in 1996 for setting up a sugar factory at Kaliganahalli and
Hattna villages of Bellur hobli, Nagamangala taluk in Mandya district.
The bench also noted that the board has not been able to justify the
acquisition as despite lapse of many years as the projects do not start
within the stipulated time and other allied conditions like providing jobs to
land losers etc are not implemented.
Extension withdrawn
Meanwhile in a related development, a memo has been filed in court stating
that two year extension granted in favour of M/s Prem Sugar and Chemicals
Corporation Ltd for setting up 5,000 TCD sugar factory with 32 MW co-

generation plant has been withdrawn on the ground that the company had
misrepresented that there are no cases pending before court.
This order came to be issued after the division bench pulled up the
authorities and even warned of contempt proceedings after it was stated
that two year extension was granted to M/s Prem Sugar and Chemicals
Corporation Limited during the pendency of proceedings before the court.
As per the terms of allotment of 86 acres of acquired land, M/s Prem Sugar
and Chemicals Corporation Ltd should have operationalized its unit within
36 months from 1996, by 2000.
Though the company got this period extended through a court order and the
Board twice on its own extended the deadline, the company has not even
laid a foundation stone for its project despite passage of 16 years after
allotment, the court had noted earlier.

CAG Finds Lapses in PWD, KIADB Works

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has come down heavily
on the Public Works Department and the Karnataka Industrial Areas
Development Board (KIADB) for causing losses worth crores of rupees to the
exchequer. The KIADB alone caused losses to the tune of Rs.104 crore, it
said.
The PWD had implemented road works in its Magadi sub-division in a
fraudulent manner and the KIADB allotted land to three industrial units at
Narasapura Industrial Area in violation of rules, it said.
The report was tabled in both houses of the state legislature on Wednesday.
It pointed out serious lapses by the chief engineer, superintending engineer
and executive engineer in implementing works worth Rs.250.62 crore in
Magadi sub-division in Ramanagaram district during 2011-12.
There was a total lack of monitoring and supervision by higher authorities
during the course of execution of works although the SE/CE were required to
regularly monitor and supervise these works. Quality control reports were
not available for any of the works claimed to have been executed, the CAG
stated.

The Internal Finance Advisor and secretary also failed to correlate monthly
expenditure statements received from subordinate officers with details of
works in progress. The CE allocated grants to the extent of Rs.212.13 crore
without prioritising works according to prescribed procedures and did not
submit any budget estimates to the government, the report said, indicting
the department officials.
Total grants of Rs.250 crore were allotted for the Magadi sub-division 27
times the average grants released over the past three years.
The grants were allotted irregularly by the Internal Financial Advisor and the
CE, SE without obtaining a list of works. Fraudulent payments of Rs.1.70
crore were made preparing fake bills, it said.
The entire work was split into 1,311 small works with each estimate below
Rs.20 lakh to avoid competitive bidding. In 189 cases, more than one
estimate was prepared for the same work leading to fictitious estimates.
Surprisingly, 891 of the 1,311 contracts were awarded to just 3 contractors
without even collecting the EMD and performance security, it said.
Check measurements were done on a single day by the department officials
in 25 to 85 works and bills were paid without obtaining quality control test
reports.
It said surprise checks were not undertaken by superior officers.
The inspection team constituted by the department had observed
irregularities and recommended recovery of the amount from the
contractors as works were neither executed nor identifiable during physical
verification.
KIADB Land Fiasco
The CAG report on Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Boards
allotment of plots at Narasapura Industrial Area at a subsidised rate has
exposed the loss of Rs.104 crore to the exchequer.
While the government had approved the allotment of undeveloped land,
KIADB allotted 128 acres of well developed plots for three industrial units at
a concessional rate, thus resulting in a loss of Rs.104 cr. KIADB had incurred
an expenditure of Rs.1.10 cr for developing each acre of land.

Fresh panel to probe into irregularities in site allotment by

Shimoga Urban Development Authority

The meeting of Shimoga Urban Development Authority (SUDA) convened

here on Tuesday has decided to constitute a new panel to probe the alleged
irregularities in the allotment of sites in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Layout.
It may be mentioned here that Deputy Commissioner Vipul Bansal, who is
also in-charge President of SUDA, had formed an inquiry panel under retired
Judge H.B. Ravindranath to probe the irregularities in site allotment.
The panel, in its report, had said that of the total 1,800 sites in the layout,
1,305 sites were allotted in violation of the law.
The committee had pointed out 22 different types of lapses in site
allotment. Based on the report, Mr. Bansal had said that a complaint would
be lodged with the police against the persons indicted in the report.
In the meeting, R.K. Siddaramanna, MLC, said that it was not possible to
initiate legal action against erring persons on the basis of the report
submitted by the probe panel.
He said that according to Section 9(2) of Karnataka Urban Development
Authorities Act, only the president of an urban development authority
should head the panel that probes irregularities.
The meeting has decided to form a fresh panel under Mr. Bansal.
The sub-registrar of Shimoga and commissioners of SUDA and Shimoga City
Corporation would be the members of the panel.
Meanwhile, Kallur Megharaj, managing trustee of Shantaveri Gopala Gowda
Samajawadi Adhyayana Kendra Trust, has demanded a CBI probe into the
irregularities in site allotment by SUDA.
Earlier, Mr. Bansal had said that he would initiate action against the erring
persons based on the report submitted by the panel headed by Mr.
Ravindranath.
Speaking to presspersons here on Wednesday, Mr. Megharaj alleged that Mr.
Bansal haddecided to go for a fresh probe yielding to political pressure.

 Panel to be headed by Deputy Commissioner

Vipul Bansal
Sub-registrar of Shimoga and Commissioners of SUDA and city
corporation to be members

Ambareesh Accused of Cornering 3 Sites

MANDYA: An individual is entitled only to one site from an urban

development authority (UDA) in the state, but Housing Minister M H
Ambareesh allegedly got three large ones.
Recently accused of violating rules to get a site from the Mandya Urban
Development Authority, Ambareesh allegedly bent the rules to get sites in
two other cities: Mysore and Bangalore. As an actor, Ambareesh rose to
fame by frequently playing an angry, upright police officer who takes on a
corrupt system, earning the epithet Rebel Star.
RTI activist K R Ravindra said Ambareesh had procured the sites by
submitting false documents. The sites are meant for the public. The
government should immediately take them back. Ambareesh should resign
from his ministership on moral grounds, he told Express.
Why Govt Sites?
Sites sold by government-run bodies like BDA are priced way lower than the
open market. Ambareesh allegedly got sites from the Mandya, Mysore, and
Bangalore Urban Development Authorities. On January 16, 1986, Ambareesh
got a 78X 50 ft site (No 1260) in G and H Block Layout, JCST,
Kuvempunagar, Mysore.
For Mysore Urban Development Authority records, he gave his residential
address as No 172, II Stage, J P Nagar, Bangalore. He paid `36,444 for the
site.
Curiously, MUDA handed him the sale deed only on August 12, 2008, 22
years after he was allotted the site. In 1987, just a year after he got a site in
Mysore, Ambareesh got another from the Bangalore Development Authority.
When he responded to an advertisement offering plots in Sarakki II Stage,

he was allotted, on July 28, 1987, a 120X80 ft site. He paid `93,639 for this
one.
Woodlands Address
For BDA records, Ambareesh entered his residential address as 412,
Woodlands Hotel, Sampangi Tank Road, Bangalore. How a hotel address was
accepted by the BDA authorities is a mystery. On March 6, 1999, when
Ambareesh was Mandya MP, he again applied for a site. He got a 50X80 site
(now with House No 917) on March 23, 2002, under the MP quota. He paid
`3 lakh for the site.
Halved and Sold
Later, the site was allegedly divided into two and one portion (25X80 ft) was
sold to K Govindaraju, a resident of Mysore, for Rs 1.75 lakh. The other (also
25X80 ft) was sold to S Ajith, a resident of Hindavalu in Mandya taluk, for Rs
3.87 lakh. This sale also violated also rules.
Section 12 (2) of the Karnataka Urban Development Authorities (Allotment
of Sites) Rules of 1991 stipulates that any person who owns a site or house
in any part of the state becomes ineligible for another site or house from
any authority or housing board in the state. Efforts to reach Ambareesh
failed.
Self-Housing Minister
Ambareesh allegedly owns three sites in violation of the rules:
n Mysore: 78X50 ft, Kuvempunagar. Paid Rs 36,444.
Bangalore: 120X80 ft, J P Nagar (Sarakki). Paid Rs n93,639.
Mandya: 50X80 ft. Paid Rs 3 lakh. Divided it and sold nit to two buyers.

Full-fledged CBI probe likely in Mandya site scam

Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake on Tuesday said

his department would look into the findings and merits of a report
by the Mandya Urban Development Authority (MUDA) commissioner
K Mathai on the alleged irregularities and illegal allotment of sites
by the Authority.

We have received the report, but have not accepted it. We will send the
report to the Home department for its perusal, Sorake told reporters here.
Sorake said the department had already handed over the initial case to the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The department is handing over all
the documents pertaining to the case to the CBI.
Whether this report also warrants to be handed over to the CBI is a
decision which will be left to the Home department, he said. The report,
which was submitted on June 4 to the Urban Development department,
speaks about a loss of Rs 300 crore to the State government by way of
illegalities under various schemes. The report states that the government
has already handed over the case pertaining to 107 sites to the CBI.
Justifying the decision to hand over the case to CBI, Sorake said that the
initial estimates of the scam were to the extent of Rs 23 crore. The
misappropriated amount was transferred to accounts outside India,
primarily to Australia, said the minister.

On Housing Minister M H Ambareeshs reported request to transfer Mathai

from the present post, Sorake said that he had not received any such
request. But he has already been promoted and transferred to Bidar. Due
to the Lok Sabha elections, the transfer was withheld, said the minister.
Sorake said that the department was trying to strengthen the Directorate of
Urban Development and streamline the site allotment process in the City
Corporations. He said that 50,000 sites in Mysore were remaining vacant,
despite them being allotted to beneficiaries.

Land mafia grabs Mysore Maharaja Srikantadatta Narasimharaja

Wadiyar Bahadur's property

With the last scion of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, Srikantadatta
Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur, passing away more than six months ago,
the real estate mafia is eyeing his properties running into crores of rupees,
in the heart of the historical city of Mysore.
Astonishingly, two prime properties of Wadiyar were alienated just 3 days
before he passed away (December 10, 2013) with the sub-registrar's office
even giving its approval. This prompted the late prince's widow

Pramodadevi to seek a Lokayukta probe. Till recently, the Wadiyar family

members were not even aware of their land being usurped by the real
estate mafia.
The net worth of Wadiyar's assets (spread across Bangalore, Mysore and
Ooty) are estimated to be in excess of Rs.1,600 crore. He also holds a share
in the Bangalore Palace grounds, which is embroiled in a legal dispute after
the Karnataka Government planned to take over the same. It is not clear as
to how many smaller properties the Wadiyar family owns but the land
mafia's efforts, has shocked the people of Mysore. Incidentally, both the
illegal transactions were brought to the notice of the royal family by an NGO
(Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagruta Vedike).
"It is unfortunate that illegal alienation of properties owned by the
Maharaja's family is happening in the CM's hometown. He has agreed to
look into the matter and directed the authorities concerned to take up the
issue. Hopefully, the Lokayukta should be able to end this menace," said
Vedike's president K.S. Shivaram.
Mysore Lokayukta SP S.M. Jagadish Prasad said a probe had already been
ordered into the two land transactions and that the properties would be
restored to the Wadiyars.
In the first incident, a prime property belonging to the Wadiyars near the
Mysore Mall was sold, as if the late prince had given his consent on
December 7, 2013 (just three days before he died). The police have arrested
two real estate agents and the sub-regitrar concerned.
In the second incident, again on the same day (December 7), another prime
property (1.5 acres) was alienated in favour of 70-year-old Siddamma, a
gardener in the palace. Apparently, it is shown in the sale deed that Wadiyar
granted the land to Siddamma as a gift.
"On December 7, 2013, the late prince was in Bangalore. There is no way
that he visited the subregistrar's office to sign the sale deed documents.
This is a clear case of forgery. We need to examine all the transactions to
detect such cases," said Shivaram.
According to him, the real estate mafia has fenced three other prime
properties owned by the Wadiyars in Mysore.

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