Sri Kemparaju v. State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
NC: 2025:KHC:20215; High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru; decided 12-06-2025; M. Nagaprasanna J (single judge, oral order); W.P. No. 13734/2025 (LA-KIADB) c/w W.P. Nos. 12869, 12900, 13130, 13739, 13740, 13752, 13775, 13781, 13789, 13871, 13881, 14164, 14307, 14356, 14522, 15110, 15518, 15538, 15641, 16268, 16270 of 2025; regularisation of unauthorised cultivation; Form Nos. 50, 53 and 57; Land Grant Rules; Tahsildar and Land Grant Committee, Nelamangala Taluk; KIADB acquisition — Preliminary Notification and Final Notification dated 11.08.2021; direction to consider applications within eight weeks and communicate decision; no dispossession till decision; acquisition not pronounced upon; petitions disposed.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the 3rd respondent-Tahsildar to consider the cases of the petitioners qua their respective applications in Form Nos. 50 and 57 strictly in consonance with law, within eight weeks from receipt of a copy of the order, and to communicate the decision to each petitioner; petitioners in possession/cultivation not to be dispossessed till a decision is taken; acquisition process (Preliminary and Final Notification) not pronounced upon; all other contentions left open.