Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ordered issue of notice to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and others on a petition filed by three property owners questioning the body’s power to ask other civic authorities to deny water, electricity and sewerage lines to a building constructed in deviation from the sanctioned plan.
Justice Raghavendra S. Chauhan passed the order on the petition filed by Nasser Aziz and two others who have carried out construction on their property in M.S. Palya, Jarakabandekaval, Yelahanka, coming under the Vidyaranyapura sub-division of the BBMP.
They claim that the neither the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act nor any other statute empower the BBMP from compelling other civic authorities to deny essential services.
The petitioners alleged that BBMP officials started troubling them during the construction on the pretext of violation of the sanctioned plan and issued an order, for demolishing illegal structures, without following procedure.
