Four large villas inside Shubh Enclave in Kasavanahalli were partially demolished on Saturday. Of the four, two were under construction. One was almost complete and the owners were getting ready for the housewarming.
Among those affected was Mahendra Kumar, a techie, who had built his house on a 70 ft by 120 ft plot in 2014. “When I was building my house, civic officials had marked the drain alignment. I left that space and built my house in the remaining parts. But today, they demolished my house right in the middle and claimed to have reclaimed the drain. They did not even allow us to take out our belongings,” he said.
Shoddy surveys Across the city, multiple surveys of rajakaluves and their varying alignments have led to chaos and claims by property owners of being victims of shoddy surveys. In Bommanahalli and Kasavanahalli, property owners claimed to have built their houses after taking into account markings for drains, only to find the alignment shifting in the new survey.
Pradeep Baliga, a property owner, lost a part of his house in Nyanappanahalli. He was bitter about civic officials. “When I built the house in 2009, I made it a point to meet revenue officials who provided me a map showing the rajakaluve where the road is today. Now, the BBMP claims that the kaluve runs through my plot,” he alleged.
