11-Yr Yawning Gap: Karnataka HC Imposes 10K Cost On Former BJP Corporator's PIL Against Waste Plant Development Rights To Private Persons

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a PIL filed by a former municipal corporator and BJP leader NR Ramesh, who had claimed that grant of developmental rights to private persons in lieu of land, for establishing a garbage wastage plant, had resulted in corrupt practice.In doing so the court noted that the plea was filed after over a decade since the order concerning the transferable. The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a PIL filed by a former municipal corporator and BJP leader NR Ramesh, who had claimed that grant of developmental rights to private persons in lieu of land, for establishing a garbage wastage plant, had resulted in corrupt practice. A division bench of Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice K V Aravind in its order said, “Apart from the above aspects, a weighty consideration because of which the Court would not entertain the present public interest petition is that it seeks to raise challenge to the Government Order after a gap of eleven years. The TDR was granted as per order dated January 3, 2013 passed by the Urban Development Department of the State Government for establishment of Wastage Treatment Plant of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.