Karnataka High Court Judgement on Land Acquisition for PRR

It is quite unfortunate that the Honourable High Court of Karnataka had quashed the BDA recent preliminary Notification for acquisition of 372 acres of land in connection with the formation of Peripheral Ring Road to ease the vehicular traffic. BDA wanted this extent of land for approach roads and Toll Plazas. Further, they needed land for forming FLY OVERS. Since it is an ambitious project there has been some changes in the project scheme when the ground reality was realised by the BDA. The Honourable High Court also had observed that the BDA should leave the formation of roads to the professional bodies like National Highways Authority of India. In fact the BDA had entrusted the work of formation of PRR to the NHAI a couple of years back but the NHAI had refused to undertake the work on the ground that they could form road up to a width of 60 meters and the PRR happened to be a 100 meters wide road.  It is not known whether the Advocates of BDA had properly presented the necessity of the above acquisition before the Honourable Judge is not known.