H Basavarajendra vs M/O Personnel,Public Grievances And ... on 24 January, 2018
5. The Hon'ble High Court of Karnataka in K.K. Poonacha Vs.
State of Karnataka and Others reported in 2011 (1) Karnataka Law
Journal 177B indicated "It is not a law enacted for acquisition or
requisitioning of property. The terms like amenity, civic amenity,
Bangalore Metropolitan Area, betterment tax, building, building
operations, development, engineering operations, means of access,
street as defined in Section 2 of the 1976 Act are directly related to the
issue of development. Section 14 lays down that the object of the
Authority shall be to promote and secure development of the
Bangalore Metropolitan Area and for that purpose it shall have the
power to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of movable and
immovable property but the provision relating to
acquisition of land contained in Chapter 4 in Section
35 - 36 are only incidental to the main object of
enactment namely development of the city of
Bangalore and the area adjacent thereto".