Bill was tabled in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. The Bill replaces an Ordinance that was passed earlier, which the government promulgated to reserve the right to acquire or not ...

The Karnataka Legislative Council passed the Bangalore Palace (Utilisation and Regulation of Land) Bill, 2025, on Monday, March 10, amid allegations of politica ...

from the heirs of the Maharaja of Mysore. While the Bangalore Palace Acquisition and Transfer (BPAT) Act, 1996, was upheld by the Karnataka High Court in 1997, following an unsuccessful challenge by ...

By R. Raja Chandra So the hidden genie is out of the bottle! It is equally surprising that one State enactment tries to subsume another State enactment contrary to the premise under which the ...

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Two years later, a similar attempt was made to take over the Mysore Palace and its properties. In both instances, the erstwhile royal family contested the move in court, asserting that ownership and ...

3,014 crore worth of TDR with the Supreme Court. This decision by the State Cabinet comes with a plea that the deposited amount should not be handed over to the Mysore royal family until the ownership ...

The U-turn came barely days after the Supreme Court reprimanded the Siddaramaiah administration ... a similar act was brought in to acquire the Mysore palace. In the case of Bangalore Palace grounds, ...

The erstwhile royal family of Mysore belongs to the Wadiyar dynasty founded ... Around 1999, proposals to widen the road around the palace grounds reignited a court battle that continues to this day.

The Supreme Court had in the last week directed the state government to deposit the TDR within a week based on the plea of the heirs of the erstwhile royal family of Mysore. DHNS Last Updated : 06 ...