The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike v. Vinayaka Educational Trust
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court, Bengaluru; Writ Appeal No. 206 of 2023 (BDA); decided 12-08-2025; coram Anu Sivaraman J. (author) and Rajesh Rai K. J.; appeal by BBMP (Commissioner and Assistant Executive Engineer, Ward No.13, Gayatrinagara Range) under Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act against Single Judge order dated 23-11-2022 in W.P. No.10047/2019 (BDA); appeal dismissed; directions upheld for handover of Civic Amenity Site portion (Playground and Anganawadi Centre, Annexure 'R3' sketch) to Vinayaka Educational Trust within three months; Anganawadi functioning and playground use held no bar; school building construction; respondents included Bangalore Development Authority and Sri Sathyanarayana House Bulding Cooperative Society Limited; counsel: Sanjeev B.L. (appellants), I.S. Devaiah (R1), Murugesh V. Charati/Latha S.S. (R2), T. Seshagiri Rao/Lekha N. (R3).
What did the court decide?
No relief to the appellants; the writ appeal was dismissed as devoid of merits. The directions issued by the learned Single Judge to hand over the subject Civic Amenity Site to respondent No.1 were upheld, and the Division Bench directed that they be complied with within a period of three months from the date of the judgment.