High Court of Karnataka. The Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) had acquired the land under provisions of the KIAD Act while the landowners argued that it was not meant for a genuine public purpose. | Photo Credit: File photo Observing that “acquiring land for a profitable private entity under the guise of public purpose amounts to a fraud on statute and the Constitution”, the High Court of Karnataka has quashed the State government’s 2012 notifications acquiring private lands for the benefit of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (IMTMA) for constructing multi-level car parking facilities for its Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) on Tumkuru Road. A division bench comprising Justice D.K. Singh and Justice T.M. Nadaf allowed a batch of appeals filed by Mukesh Kumar and other landowners from Madanayakanahalli village, while setting aside a 2013 single-judge order that had partially upheld the acquisition notifications of 2012.