G Anjinayya S/O G Hanumanthappa v. the State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (NC: 2025:KHC-D:7587); WP No. 102489 of 2025 (GM-RES); Justice Pradeep Singh Yerur; decided 12 June 2025. Keywords: Article 226 mandamus; threatened demolition of residential houses; road widening; houses marked on 21.12.2024 without notice at Vanenooru, Ballari; representations dated 15.01.2025 and 29.01.2025; due process of law; notice and opportunity of hearing; no dispossession without due process. Disposition: petition allowed on respondents' submission that demolition had not occurred and procedure would be followed per law.
What did the court decide?
Writ of mandamus issued: respondents to consider representations dated 15.01.2025 and 29.01.2025 (Annexures-D and F) in accordance with law with proper notice and opportunity of hearing before proceeding further; no interference with or dispossession of the petitioners' residential houses without due process of law.