Metro files application to vacate stay

Metro files application to vacate stay

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Tuesday filed an application before the Karnataka High Court urging the court to vacate the stay it had granted to several petitioners who had questioned the acquisition of their lands or buildings for the Bangalore Metro project.

The petitioners, S. Madhav, a resident of CMH Road in Indiranagar, R. Venkatachala and 13 others of Murphy Road, Anjaneya Temple Street and Ulsoor, had petitioned the court against the action of the BMRCL in going ahead with the metro project on C.M.H. Road.

They said the BMRCL had already started digging trenches at several places. They said the traffic on the metro would be much more if the alignment was shifted from C.M.H. Road to Old Madras Road. In another petition, B.V. Nagesh, B.V. Jagadeesh, T.S. Prameela and M. Padmavathi, all residents of Lady Curzon Road, challenged the BMRCL action in acquiring their properties in Baiyyappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

C.D. Medappa and his wife Indira Medappa questioned the action of the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) in acquiring their residential property in Craig Layout on M.G. Road for putting up a station for Bangalore Metro.

Shravani Property Limited, who had purchased Plaza cinema building on M.G. Road for Rs. 26 crore, too, challenged the acquisition of the building for the metro project. They alleged that several other buildings in the vicinity were deliberately left out of the acquisition proceedings by the KIADB.

Prema Vijayarangam of C.M.H. Road, and several business establishments such as Soumya Silks and Saris, Suresh Footware, Bombay Tailors, Aroma Bakery, Jyothi Bakery and K.K. Computers had challenged the acquisition of their buildings for the metro project.

When the cases of these petitioners and others had come up for hearing several months ago, the court had stayed the dispossession of their properties.

BMRCL on Tuesday filed an application urging the court to vacate the stay. The cases were listed before Justice K. L. Manjunath, who adjourned further hearing of the case to the second week of November.