2 days before Gujarat MLAs landed, resort got Rs 982-crore penalty bill
July 31, 2017 09:08
The resort near Bengaluru, where 42 MLAs from Gujarat have been stashed away by the Congress to prevent them from shifting loyalties to the BJP ahead of the Rajya Sabha poll next week, is facing a demand to pay Rs 982 crore as penalty to regularise 77 acres of land encroached by it.
The demand was made just two days before the MLAs checked in by the Congresss own government in Karnataka.
The decision taken by the Congress government on the basis of a Supreme Court order is a change of stance, since the previous BJP government had decided in 2012 to hand over the 77 acres to the resort for a regularisation fee of Rs 82.69 crore. The latest Cabinet decision seeks to enforce an order by the states revenue authorities who had demanded the payment to regularise the encroached land.
The Eagleton Golf Resort, which has been tagged as one of the earliest world-class golf resorts in the country, was started by Andhra Pradesh businessmen Meda Ashok Kumar in 2000. After his death in 2013, it is being run by his two sons Meda Kiran Kumar and Meda Chethan.
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