Summary:
“You [advertisement agencies] have created the mess and you have to pay the price for this,” the court observed while refusing to stay the actions initiated by the BBMP for removing illegal structures. The BBMP has claimed that no advertisement hoarding is legal as the civic body had not issued any licence since 2016. The petitioner-agencies had also claimed that the BBMP could not have totally banned outdoor advertisements contrary to the advertisement by-law-2016, which imposed restrictions on putting up hoardings in selected zones. more-inThe Karnataka High Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to remove metal structures put up illegally by the property owners and advertisement agencies for displaying advertisements, by vacating its September 6 interim order in which the BBMP was asked not to precipitate the issue by taking any adverse action. The jurisdictional officers had passed the order on the responses submitted by petitioner-advertisement agencies / property owners to the public notice issued by the BBMP asking property owners and advertisement agencies to submit documents to prove that the advertisement hoardings and structures were put up by obtaining necessary permission from the BBMP..