The Hindu
The State Committee of the Republican Party of India (RPI) has urged the Government to institute an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into allegations that a software development company had illegally acquired 125 acres of land belonging to farmers, Dalits and the poor at Bandikodigenahalli in Bangalore Rural district’s Devanahalli taluk.
RPI State unit president M. Venkataswamy told presspersons here on Monday that the Government had allotted 325 acres to ITASCA Software Development Private Ltd. for establishing a Special Economic Zone at Bandikodigenahalli village. But the company had acquired an additional 125 acres of agricultural land in violation of the Land Acquisition Act at the cost of the poor in connivance with top officials in the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB), the Minister concerned and his son, Venkataswamy alleged.
“Although the land value in the vicinity of Bandikodigenahalli in the open market is estimated at Rs. 2 crore an acre, the Government has fixed the compensation for the acquired land at Rs. 31 lakh an acre. But the company was discriminating against the poor while disbursing compensation. While Dalits and poor farmers had been paid between Rs. 18 lakh and Rs. 20 lakh an acre, farmers belonging to the “upper” castes with political clout and bargaining power had got between Rs. 60 lakh and Rs. 80 lakh an acre, he said.
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