‘BBMP did not take action against illegal buildings despite suo motu proceedings’
The Hindu
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Observing that the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has not taken any concrete step, except conducing a partial survey, in the past two years against illegal constructions, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday directed the Chief Commissioner to take concrete actions like the demolition of identified structures by December first week.
Noticing from the chart submitted by Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta, indicating that 4,279 buildings have been identified for construction in deviation from sanctioned plan or against bylaw, the court said that Commissioner’s statement did not indicate survey of buildings constructed sans sanctioned plan.

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