The Karnataka High Court partly allowed petitions against the Karnataka Renewable Energy Policy 2022 to 2027 and held that the policy's land-use limits cannot be imposed on developers who acquire or lease land themselves. The rest of the policy stays in force.
What this changes for a title check
For a renewable project in Karnataka the land file has one less thing to test. Where the developer bought or leased the land privately, the policy's land-use caps no longer apply, so a lender need not treat a cap breach as a default risk or a reason to question the lease. The records to check are the ordinary chain: the lease or sale deed, the land conversion order and the state's permission for the project. We have only the news report, not the order, so get the judgment itself before advising a client, and confirm whether the state has appealed, since an appeal could put the caps back in play until it is heard.