New Delhi, July 19
The controversial Bangalore-Mysore express corridor project, which has
snowballed into a major political issue in Karnataka today again
landed in the Supreme Court with it expressing deep anguish over
certain remarks against judiciary and apex court judges in particular
by some MLAs.
The controversy even threatening the JD(S)-BJP alliance with former
Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda putting pressure for scrapping of the
Rs 2,300 crore project, provides for building a infrastructure highway
between Bangalore and Mysore for which nearly 7,000 acres had been
acquired by the government. Mr Gowda has taken the stand that the land
acquired was far in excess actually required for the project and one
of JD(S) MLA allegedly had cast aspersion against the judges of the
Supreme Court, which earlier had rejected a bunch of petitions
challenging the Karnataka High Court order approving the project.
Nandi Construction Company, undertaking the project, again moved
the apex court today, raising the issue of Karnataka Government trying
to back out despite the fact that a penalty of Rs 5 lakh was imposed
on it earlier by the court. When its counsel Dushyant Dave told a
Bench, headed by Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal that even aspersions
were cast against the apex court judges by JD (S) MLA Rajanna, the
court said elected representatives should not make such “baseless”
remarks against the judiciary as it would cause tremendous damage to
the institution.
