Arkavathi: BJP says govt violated High Court order

BENGALURU: The state BJP unit on Monday submitted a petition before the Justice HS Kempanna Commission of Inquiry, which is looking into the denotification of the Arkavathi housing project, a subject of much controversy against Siddaramaiah government.

In the petition, submitted by advocates S Doreraju and S Nataraja Sharma, the party has alleged that the government failed to protect the villages clubbed together as the Arkavathi project from being denotified and flagrantly violated the orders of the High Court in the process.

"The action of the present government in considering the applications, requests and official recommendations given by certain vested interest, officers of the government, politicians and the land mafia are totally illegal, arbitrary and high handed. It is also opposed to the established Law and procedures thereof as a result of which the public has suffered and justice is on trial. Further, Karnataka suffered loss in terms of crores of rupees on account of the illegal and arbitrary decisions by the government and orders issued thereof," says the petition.

The petition includes a list of witnesses who could be summoned by the inquiry commission, including seven former BDA commissioners and the commissioner Shyam Bhat.