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- The Karnataka High Court has ordered that the State government cannot dispossess HMT Ltd. of about 430 acres of land in Jalahalli, Bengaluru, while the public sector company must not fell trees on it.
- The interim order came on HMT's challenge to a June 15 Forest Department directive asking it to hand over the land after it was declared forest land.
- The court noted the land's forest status is already pending before the Supreme Court, and the final decision will depend on that outcome.
- HMT has also promised not to sell, lease, licence or encumber the land in the meantime.
What to watch next
- The Supreme Court's decision on the status of the land as forest land
- Further proceedings in HMT's petition before the Karnataka High Court
- Whether the Forest Department pursues its Section 64A action under the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963
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