A building here that has housed the main and splinter groups of both Congress and Janata Parivar will see another round of legal wrangle with JD(S), which possesses it, deciding to file an appeal against a High Court order that asked it to vacate it in three months.
The property at the vortex of a legal battle was donated by one Rangaswamy as gift deed for construction of Congress Bhavan in 1949, which, after the famous Congress split in 1969, has become a bone of contention since then.
The High Court had on Friday upheld a decree passed by a city civil court in 2005 that the property housing the JD(S) headquarters on the prime Race Course Road belongs to Congress party.
A division Bench of Justices N Kumar and V Suri Appa Rao had directed JD(S) to vacate the property and hand it over to KPCC within three months.
Opposition JD(S) Leader in Karnataka assembly H D Kumaraswamy today said Janata Dal (Secular) will approach the Supreme Court against the Karnataka High Court's verdict.
"We still have the option of appealing to the Supreme Court. Party national President H D Deve Gowda has already decided to appeal in the SC," Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
"Deve Gowda is aware of long court struggle," he added.
Interestingly, JD(S) did not exist when the suit was filed by KPCC in 1982 for the possession of the property as it was filed against the undivided Janata Party then.
