BMIC: Deve Gowda to move people's court

BMIC: Deve Gowda to move people's court
DH News Service, New Delhi:
Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has declared that he will go to "people's court" if the Supreme Court failed to stop the fraud on the people of Karnataka by allowing to proceed with execution of Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP) by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE), of Ashok Kheny.

Releasing a book “BMICP - A case study in fraud and collusion to defeat the ends of justice and defraud courts”, published by the legal cell of Janata Dal (Secular), here on Monday, Gowda said that copies of the book will be given to MPs of both the Houses, all MLAs in the State Assembly and widely publicised in Karnataka to elicit response from the people on BJP government’s decision to proceed with the project by handing over 2,289 acres of land to NICE.

Accusing the State Government of not furnishing necessary information to the Apex Court on the project, Gowda said that the BJP dispensation had been flouting the terms of original Framework Agreement (FWA) entered into between the State and NICE for execution of the work.

The State government reduced the extent of land to be returned as per the terms of the FWA from 14255.7 acres to 11966 acres, thereby giving 2289 acres of extra land to NICE at a single stroke. He claimed that recent documents produced by him reveal that NICE has fraudulently acquired the rights to sell 8,227 acres to the public from the project land.

He alleged that senior advocate B V Acharya, earlier appearing for NICE was now on the government panel and had been advising the State Government to concede to the demands of the Company in contravention of the Apex Court order directing adherence to FWA while implementing the project.

''I have full faith that Supreme Court will take suo moto cognisance of this unprecedented attempt to abuse judicial process and bring the perpetrators to book,'' Gowda says in his forward to the book.