Encroachment: HC upholds demand for ₹982 crore from Eagleton Resorts
The Hindu
Court declines to accept company’s claim that it is liable to pay only ₹12.35 crore
The High Court of Karnataka has upheld the decision of the State government to collect around ₹982 crore from M/s Chamudreswari Buid Tech Pvt. Ltd., promoter of Eagleton Golf Course and Resorts on the outskirts of Bengaluru, for allowing it to retain 77 acres 19 guntas of the total government land encroached while developing the project during the late 1990s. The High Court said that “the present petition [by the company] is nothing but an abuse of the process in order to enable the petitioner to achieve its narrow ends, that is to illegally continue its possession and commercial use of public property” even after the apex court had not intervened in the High Court’s earlier decisions of describing the company as ‘an encroacher’.More Related News