In a bizarre incident in IT city Bangalore, a lake has been put up on sale. A family in Bangalore is claiming ownership of a lake in Hosur area of the city and has put it up for sale for what they say is "just Rs 400 cr". The Bengaluru-Chennai expressway - the manufacturing highway of India; is around 6 km from Koramangala - the hub of techies and high net worth individuals; is bang in the middle of the tech corridor stretching from Koramangala to Electronics City - where the big bucks are. Spread over 13 acres and 24 guntas (over 6 football fields), the asking price is Rs 400 crore. The only glitch? It's a lake. Activists who got a whiff of the intended sale posed as buyers and collected documents from the family. Among the documents is a file noting by none other than "Chief Minister Siddaramaiah" asking officials to "do the needful".

This noting - it could not be confirmed whether it is rightfully the CM's - has added some legitimacy to the claims of the family over the parcel of "land". Added to that is a Karnataka High Court order of August 2014 directing the Special Deputy Commissioner of Bengaluru to restore the family's name in the title deed. "I have received the complaint and need some time to look at the documents. There is a court order and I also have to collect many more documents from the deputy commissioner's office. I am also calling all the officers who have enquired and declared it as a lake. The enquiry is under process and I will soon come out with a report," Speaker KB Koliwad said. He heads the legislative committee on lake encroachment in Bangalore.