Bengaluru property owners up in arms after BBMP notification for road widening lists past owners

Property owners on ITPL - Hoodi Main Road who are set to lose parts of their properties to road widening are up in arms after Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) issued a draft notification for land acquisition on June 18. The civic body in its notification has listed names of owners in Records of Rights, Tenancy and Crops (RTC), that are not updated for decades now, even as the property ownership has changed several hands now.

Significantly, BBMP itself had issued notices to the present owners for road widening in 2017, acknowledging their ownership.

H.M. Chandrashekhar, who bought a plot and built a residence off the road in 1987, is now shocked to see his part of the plot and building in survey number 191 of Hoodi village marked for acquisition and the owner listed as Nagappa, who was the owner of the said land as per RTC last updated in 1968. When he bought the land in 1987, Nagappa was not its owner.
source:thehindu.com