The Karnataka High Court on Friday asked the Principal City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bangalore, to find ways and means along with his colleague judges for early disposal of around 800 pending suits questioning actions initiated for demolishing constructions that violate building bye-laws in the city.
Meanwhile, the court also asked the Advocate-General to advise the State to initiate steps, including the measures for filling up vacancies of judicial members, for streamlining the functioning of Karnataka Appellate Tribunal (KAT) so that a large number pending litigations related to building bye-law violations could be decided at the earliest. There are around 1,800 such litigations pending before the tribunal for many years.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D.H. Waghela and Justice Budihal R.B passed the order while directing the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to provide the list of cases pending before the civil court for adjudication.
The Bench issued the direction as the BBMP had pointed out that it was constrained to act due to pendency of cases, filed by the building owners’ questioning notices issued to them under Section 321 of Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act for demolition of illegal portions, before the tribunal and the civil court.
