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School challenges KSSIDC notification

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A judge of the Karnataka High Court was surprised when he was told that 17 sheds belonging to the Karnataka State Small Industries Development Corporation (KSSIDC) have been allotted for running a school, on Wednesday.

The judge was hearing a petition of the school challenging a notification by the KSSIDC asking it to bear one per cent levy (cost) of drawing a power line. When the KSSIDC failed to act on the representation of the school asking it to be exempted from paying levy, it had moved the court.

The school said it was not an industrial undertaking and was therefore not bound to pay the levy. Justice Ashok Hinchigeri, who was hearing the petition, expressed amazement and bewilderment that 17 sheds meant for industries had been allotted for a school. He wanted to know whether it was permissible to run a school in an industrial shed. He said he would not go into the matter as it was not the subject matter of the petition.

Gramodyoga yogana

The Karnataka High Court on Monday refused to stay the Suvarna Gramodyoga Yogana formulated by the Government to improve the quality of life in rural areas or direct the State to include new villages under the yogana.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph, and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer refused to pass any interim order as sought for by a petitioner from Mandya district seeking inclusion of his village in the yogana.

The HIgh Court Bench said it could not issue any such direction and that it was the duty and discretion of the Government to include any village under the yogana.

Adjourned

A Division Bench comprising Justice K. Sreedhar Rao and Justice L. Narayanaswamy on Wednesday adjourned further hearing on appeals against a May 2007 order of a single judge upholding the State’s decision to make Karnataka a lottery-free zone, and also on banning lotteries.

Lottery agents and some of the States which were selling lottery tickets in Karnataka said that the single judge had erred in upholding the ban.

SEC plea

A Division Bench comprising Justice K. Sreedhar Rao and Justice L. Narayanaswamy on Wednesday adjourned further hearing on appeals by the State Election Commission (SEC) against an order of a single judge in granting the Government nine weeks’ time to revise the reservation of posts in local bodies.

The SEC said the single judge could not have halted the process of elections and ordered the Government to revise the reservation of posts. The Bench refused to allow several people to implead themselves in the appeal, saying that they are not necessary parties.

Directive

Justice N. Kumar on Wednesday directed the State Government to initiate action against several officials of the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) for not providing adequate and correct information relating to acquisition of land belonging to Sulochana and four others in Jaragenahalli in Bangalore. The petitioners had questioned the legality of the order passed by the Special Land Acquisition Officer in acquiring 3 acres of land in Jaragenahalli.

Justice Kumar found that the conduct of H.V. Girish, Revenue Inspector and now working as Sheristedar in the BDA, B.R. Krishnan (KAS officer and Tahsildar Bangalore South), Kalleshappa (Regional Commissioner), K.C. Shivashankar (KAS) and Headquarters Assistant to Bangalore Urban Deputy Commissioner and two retired officers Gangadhar and Peeran.

The court asked the Government to file within a week a report on what action it had taken against the officials.

Admission

A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice, Cyriac Joseph, and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer on Wednesday directed the Visvesvaraiah Technological University (VTU) to permit Nadiger College of engineering to admit students for the engineering course.

The college had appealed against a single-judge order who had upheld its disaffiliation by the Visvesvaraiah Technological University.

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