- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC:7457 WP No. 17478 of 2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 19TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N S SANJAY GOWDA WRIT PETITION NO. 17478 OF 2024 (LB-RES) BETWEEN: 1. MR. N. A. MURALIDHAR S/O LATE ANJINAPPA AGED ABOUT 48 YEARS, R/AT NADAVATTI VILLAGE, KASABA HOBLI, HOSKOTE TALUK, BANGALORE RURAL DISTRICT -560 067 …PETITIONER (BY SRI. RAJESH GOWDA., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA REP BY PRINCIPAL SECRETARY REVENUE DEPARTMENT, M.S BUILDING, BANGALORE-560001 2. THE PANCHAYAT DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (PDO) SAMETHANAHALLI GRAMA PANCHAYAT OFFICE, SAMETHANAHALI, HOSKOTE TALUK-560 067 3. THE TASILDHAR, HOSKOTE TALUK, HOSKOTE-562 114 4. SATELLITE TOWN RING ROAD (STRR) DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OFFICE AT 1, ALI ASKAR ROAD, BANGALORE-560 052 REP BY ITS MEMBER 5. THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER TALUK PANCHAYAT OFFICE, Digitally signed by KIRAN KUMAR R Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC:7457 WP No. 17478 of 2024 HOSKOTE TALUK-562 114 6. M/S. SPACE PROPERTIES (SOAHAN SERENITY) A REGISTERED PARTNERSHIP FIRM HAVING ITS OFFICE AT NO. 7, AND 12, SRI. SRINIVASA ANANDA NILAYA, V.S REDDY LAYOUT, KADUGODI, BANGALORE-560 066 REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGING PARTNER, MR. MUNESH. N.K …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. BOPANNA BELLIAPPA., AGA FOR R-1 & R-3; SMT. C.J.GEETHA., ADVOCATE FOR R-2 & R-5; SRI. YOGESH D.NAIK., ADVOCATE FOR R-4; SRI. PRAKASH T.HEBBAR., ADVOCATE FOR R-6) THIS WP IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, PRAYING TO DIRECT THE R5 TO CONSIDER THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PETITIONER DATED 29/02/2023, VIDE ANNEXURE-J, ETC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N S SANJAY GOWDA ORAL ORDER 1. Learned counsel for the 4th respondent has placed on record the photographs to indicate that the compound walls which had been erected over the roads have since been dismantled. The same is taken on record. - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC:7457 WP No. 17478 of 2024 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the 6th respondent has however installed a gate at the very entrance of the layout and it is in the habit of locking the gate, thereby preventing access to the public. 3. In response to this, learned counsel for the 6th respondent submitted that the 6th respondent would undertake that the gate would remain open all the time and the petitioner and others would have free access to the roads that have been formed in the layout. 4. An affidavit of undertaking shall be filed by the 6th respondent within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If despite the undertaking, the 6th respondent were to close the gate and impede free access to the road, the Planning Authority shall take immediate action to dismantle the gate that has been erected. - 4 - NC: 2025:KHC:7457 WP No. 17478 of 2024 5. In view of the fact that the compound walls erected on the roads have since been dismantled, the prayers made in the writ petition would not survive for consideration. 6. Subject to the above, the writ petition is disposed of as having become unnecessary. Sd/- (N S SANJAY GOWDA) JUDGE PKS List No.: 1 Sl No.: 22