- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37170 CRL.P No. 9365 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 17TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 9365 OF 2025 BETWEEN: SIKANDAR PASHA S/O MOHAMMED AKBAR AGED ABOUT 40 YEARS, R/AT NO. 667/A, 1ST STAGE, 3RD BLOCK, H.B.R.LAYOUT, BENGALURU - 43. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. SRINIVASA K.,ADVOCATE) AND: 1. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA BY ITS SECRETARY, BMTF POLICE STATION BENGALURU DISTRICT. REPRESENTED BY SPP HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA BENGALURU. 2. BENGALURU DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BY ITS COMMISSIONER NORTH SUB DIVISION KUMAR PARK, BENGALURU. 3. C.V. NAGRENDRA S/O LATE C. VENKATESH ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE ENGINEER Digitally signed by SHARADAVANI B Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37170 CRL.P No. 9365 of 2025 NO.1, NORTH SUB-DIVISION, BENGALURU DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY R.T.NAGAR, BDA COMPLEX, BENGALURU. 4. POLICE INSPECTOR BMTF POLICE STATION BENGALURU. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. M.R. PATIL, HCGP FOR R1) THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S 482 OF CR.PC (FILED U/S 528 BNSS) PRAYING TO QUASH THE FIR AGAINST THE PETITIONERS IN CR.NO.31/2019 UNDER SEC.33(A), 72 OF BDA ACT IN LGC (T) (CRIMINAL)NO.167/2023 ON THE FILE OF KARNATAKA LAND GRABBING PROHIBITION SPL.COURT AT BENGALURU AS PRAYED FOR. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM ORAL ORDER The petitioner is seeking questioning of the proceedings pending in LGC(T)(Criminal) No.167/2023 for the offence punishable under sections 33(A) and 72 of the BDA Act. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37170 CRL.P No. 9365 of 2025 2. The petitioner has approached this Court seeking quashing of the proceedings pending in the above- mentioned case on the ground that the acquisition proceedings in respect of the subject property had lapsed long ago and that the original landowners had thereafter conveyed the property by executing a duly registered sale deed. It is submitted that the petitioner, having derived title under a registered sale deed from his vendor, now seeks to resist the action initiated under the provisions of the Land Grabbing Act. 3. It is to be noted that proceedings under the Land Grabbing Act are summary in nature. The proper course open to the petitioner is to contest the matter before the competent authority by filing detailed objections. There is no impediment for the petitioner to place on record all relevant title documents and demonstrate that the property in question is a private property, thereby ousting the jurisdiction of the authority concerned. - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:37170 CRL.P No. 9365 of 2025 Reserving liberty to the petitioner to raise all permissible contentions and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition stands dismissed. All pending interlocutory applications, if any, are disposed of in terms of this order. Sd/- (SACHIN SHANKAR MAGADUM) JUDGE HDK List No.: 1 Sl No.: 22 CT: BHK