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Sujatha, J. declined to exercise PIL jurisdiction in petition filed by residents of Kottur Town Panchayath challenging approval for construction of town panchayath building on a land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr N. Shankarayana Bhat, counsel on behalf of the petitioners, placed reliance on the Record of Rights (RTC) and submitted that the subject land was reserved for public purpose and specifically shown as \u2018park and overhead water tank\u2019 in revenue records. It was submitted that the order granting approval for construction of new panchayath building in that land was not as per procedure prescribed under Section 306 of the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 and as such unsustainable in law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learned counsel Mr M.V. Hiremath, appearing on behalf of respondent, refuted the contentions of petitioner and submitted that the subject land was purchased by respondent for constructing town panchayath office and water tank, and RTC records clearly depicted the land to be for official buildings and water tank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court noted that the subject land was purchased by respondent through a registered sale deed for constructing panchayath building and water tank. However, mistakenly, the RTC extracts reflected purpose of land as \u2018park and water tank\u2019. The said mistake was corrected on respondent\u2019s representation and that order remained unchallenged. The said order, having attained finality, petitioner could not seek liberty to maintain a park in the subject land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was further held that Section 306 of the Act is applicable only if Deputy Commissioner is of the opinion that execution of any order or resolution of a town municipal council is unlawful, or is likely to cause injury\/ annoyance to public, or lead to a breach of peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the proposal to use subject land for building panchayath office and water tank did not militate against public interest, the petition was dismissed.[K.S. Iswara Goud v. Town Panchayath, Kottur,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/CbBP0u3n\"><b>2018 SCC OnLine Kar 2705<\/b><\/a>, decided on 10-12-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Dinesh Maheshwari CJ and S. 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