What authority does the commissioner have to suggest such a thing?
Let him explain this,” observed Reddy in a hearing with regard to a petition filed by Firebricks and Potteries Ltd, challenging the acquisition of land on Tumkur Road. The police commissioner’s letter mentioned the construction of a 350-room five-star hotel by India Hotels Ltd as the reason to shift the project. The presence of a hotel and metro station in close vicinity would create security problem akin to the November 2008 terror attack on Taj and Oberoi hotels in Mumbai, wrote Bidari in his letter. Fire Bricks and Potteries Ltd, the petitioner, maintained that a portion of the proposed five-star hotel will make way for the metro station in case the project is implemented. It further submitted that AK Gupta, major general, India Hotels carried out a survey in the region. The survey, according to the petitioner found that the metro project, if implemented at the site, would pose a security threat in the area. The city police commissioner wrote to the BMRCL managing director after rec
