Officials from the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) office visited the alleged spot of illegal layout on January 11, 2023. The team visited Pattandur Agrahara Village, Whitefield took note of the construction work and put a temporary halt to it.
A forest official moves the court after the government refuses sanction to prosecute the two revenue officers and the Union forest ministry directs that a complaint be filed in a court.
After the forest department sought permission from the Union environment ministry to lodge a complaint against Rai for the violation, the ministry on October 16 directed the office of additional chief secretary (forest, ecology and environment) to file a complaint against the official in a court.
In his letter to the principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF) in Karnataka, Ravindrakumar stated that forest land measuring 17.34 acre (Survey Number 47) in Kothanuru has been converted to revenue land.