- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC:7176-DB CCC No. 78 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 18TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR N. V. ANJARIA, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.I.ARUN CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 78 OF 2025 BETWEEN: 1. SMT. MUNIYAMMA W/O. GANGAPPA AGED ABOUT 54 YEARS R/At HARALURU VILLAGE CHANNARAYAPATNA HOBLI DEVANAHALLI TALUK BENGALURU RURAL - 562 110. …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI VARUN R.R., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. SRI TEJAS KUMAR AGED MAJOR SPECIAL LAND ACQUISTION OFFICER-2 (B.M.I.C.P) THE KARNATAKA INDUSTRIAL AREA DEVELOPMENT BOARD MAHARSHI ARAVIND BHAVAN 1ST FLOOR, NRUPATHUNGA ROAD BANGALORE - 560 001. ... ACCUSED Digitally signed by H K HEMA Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC:7176-DB CCC No. 78 of 2025 2. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE VIDHANA SOUDHA BENGALURU-560 001 REPRESENTED BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY. ... PROFORMA RESPONDENT (BY SRI H.L. PRADEEP KUMAR, ADVOCATE FOR R.1; SMT. PRAMODINI KISHAN, AGA FOR PROFORMA RESPONDENT) THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971, READ WITH ARTICLE 215 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, 1950, PRAYING TO ALLOW THIS CONTEMPT PETITION AND CONSEQUENTLY PUNISH THE ACCUSED NO.1 HEREIN FOR THE WILFUL AND DELIBERATE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDER DATED 03.08.2023 PASSED BY THIS HON'BLE COURT IN W.P.NO.13552/2023 (LA-KIADB), IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE AND EQUITY. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA and HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.I.ARUN - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC:7176-DB CCC No. 78 of 2025 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA) The following are the directions which are brought under the contempt jurisdiction of this Court by filing this contempt petition, as found in the order dated 03.08.2023 passed by learned Single Judge, "4. The writ petition stands disposed of with a specific direction to the 3rd respondent - Special Land Acquisition Officer - II, KIADB to consider the grievance of the petitioner for grant of compensation, on the ground that the petitioner is the owner of 1 Acre in Sy.No.37 of Haraluru Village, Channarayapatna Hobli, Devanahalli Taluk. The petitioner is also at liberty to pursue the remedy before the Tahasildar, Devanhalli Taluk in terms of the directions issued by the Assistant Commissioner. If the name of the petitioner is entered in the land records, the same can be brought to the notice of the Special Land Acquisition Officer so that he could take a decision in the matter of award of compensation." 2. A bare reading of the aforesaid directions would go to show that before the direction given to respondent No.3-the Special Land Acquisition Officer to consider the grievance of the petitioner for grant of compensation operates, the petitioner has to discharge her - 4 - NC: 2025:KHC:7176-DB CCC No. 78 of 2025 part of obligation by approaching the Tahsildar and getting the name entered in the land records. 3. When a query was put in this regard by the court to learned advocate Mr. R.R. Varun for the complainant, he was entirely at his receiving end to be able to submit only that the said procedures are still pending. 4. In that view, the question of compliance of the direction issued to respondent No.3-the Special Land Acquisition Officer-2, the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board, does not arise since the other part of the requirement is not completed. No contempt is made out at this stage. 5. The petition is misconceived and it is dismissed. SD/- (N. V. ANJARIA) CHIEF JUSTICE SD/- (M.I.ARUN) JUDGE VMB List No.: 1 Sl No.: 1