M/S Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited v. Smt N a Hemavathi
Case brief
What is this about?
WA No. 351/2024 (M/s Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. v. Smt N A Hemavathi & ors) c/w WA No. 817/2024 (Special Land Acquisition Officer, KIADB (Metro Rail Project) v. Smt N A Hemavathi & ors), High Court of Karnataka, Bengaluru, decided 07-01-2026 (NC: 2026:KHC:1060-DB; Coram: D K Singh and S Rachaiah, JJ.). Keywords: BMRCL; KIADB; Metro Rail Project; land acquisition; Survey No.10/1A Hoodi Village, K.R. Puram Hobli; excess land used (325 sq m against 123.67 sq m compensated); 'B' kharab land; relief beyond scope of writ petition — no pleadings, ground or prayer; deletion of Single Judge direction (paragraph 7); liberty reserved to seek compensation for excess land; Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act; W.P.No.14829/2021 (LA-KIADB); order under challenge dated 28.08.2023.
What did the court decide?
Both writ appeals allowed in part: the direction in paragraph 7 of the impugned judgment directing payment of compensation for 34 square meters of 'B' kharab land is deleted; the Court did not interfere with paragraph 9 of the impugned judgment, leaving intact the liberty reserved to the petitioners to agitate, in accordance with law, their claim for compensation in respect of land allegedly used by BMRCL in excess of the acquisition.