There are 2,170 illegal religious structures on public lands, BBMP tells HC

A third survey conducted by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on the directions of the High Court of Karnataka has found that there are 2,170 religious structures built illegally on public lands in the city, and 277 of them were built after September 29, 2009, the cut-off date set by the apex court for preventing such constructions. A report on the outcome of the survey was submitted before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum on Friday during the hearing of a PIL petition, initiated suo motu by the High Court for enforcing the Supreme Court’s 2009 directions on preventing illegal religious structures on public properties.