Sixty-year-old Madhava Devadiga, a resident of Alape Kallaghatta near Yekkur, is willing to offer part of his land for free to the police.
But for the last two years the city police are yet to accept the offer.
Following a ceiling in land holding, the 12.5 cents of excess land of Mr. Devadiga was earmarked for the government in 1978.
Mr. Devadiga, who resides in Kallaghatta, retained with him 33 cents of land on one part of the land and another portion of five cents was after the land in the name of the government, which had allotted it to Police Department.
This five cents of land serves as a common entrance to the two property.
It was in 2013 that Mr. Devadiga offered his land to the government, which had allotted it to the Police Department.
“I met the then Police Commissioner Manish Kharbikar who agreed to the offer and directed the local police to look into the land,” he said.
Mr. Devadiga told The Hindu that the file did not move at the police station.
The police only visited only after his recent visit to the office of the Police Commissioner in November, 2014.
The police team inspected the land and filed a report stating the presence of a big stone on the land that could cause problems in constructing buildings.
The file reportedly remained in the office of the Police Commissioner.
Few weeks back, Mr. Devadiga filed a fresh application reiterating his offer. He also sought permission from the Mangaluru City Corporation for the transfer of the land.
His file is now reportedly under the consideration of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) K. Santosh Babu.
Mr. Babu on Friday visited the land concerned. “This land can be considered for constructing quarters for police constables. This is not suited for constructing a police station,” he said.
The necessary orders for accepting offer by Mr. Devadiga will be issued in the next few days, he added.
