The Deccan Herald 10.12.2010
Encroachment of govt land alleged
Mysore, December 10, DHNS:
As the land denotifications and encroachments take the sheen off development projects in State, a housing project by the Brigade Group in Jayalakshmipuram is in the eye of storm for alleged fraud and illegal encroachment of government land.
The housing project under execution of the Mysore-Hunsur road near Paduvarahalli circle is accused of illegally encroaching nearly 1000 sq meters of land worth ` 3 - 4 crores in site of plan, through deed of rectification in 2008. The Brigade Group had bought the plot measuring about 4559 sq mts from K B Ramachandre Urs in August 2007.
The plot originally measured more than 5400 sq mts as per the status in 1981. However, government issued an order to the then owner of the property Ramachandre Urs that about 990 sq mts of land was public property and hence belonged to government. The notification clearly said that the owner cannot sell the 990 sq mts land in case he sold the property.
O Shyam Bhat, senior advocate told reporters on Thursday that the Brigade Group colluded with the seller (Ramachandre Urs and his family) and applied for deed of rectification in July 2008 after buying the site in 2007 claiming that entire 5400 sq mts land belonged to the original owner and must be transferred to the buyer. The city corporation and the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) officials granted the same without any proper cross verification. It appears the officials connived with Brigade Group to allot them the prime land against the 1982 government order, the advocate said adding that the housing group has begun work encroaching the public space which was originally meant for a road.
He said the citizens’ group and himself (Bhat) had filed a complaint with the Deputy Commissioner and the Police Commissioner bringing to his notice the fraud. “DC Harsh Gupta, who took proactive role in clearing encroachments is peddling soft on the issue. There is neither any action nor an attempt to verify the claims of complainants,” he regretted.
Advocates Bhaskar, Jayakumar, citizen group member Somashekar were present.
