Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that the City’s Principal  Civil and JMFC Court has restrained the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) from naming or installing a statue of some other personality at Violin Maestro Sangeetha Ratna Piteel Chowdaiah Circle (Kalamandira junction) on Hunsur Road, High Court advocate N.P. Amrutesh of S.S. Gowda Law Associates has said it is not correct on the part of MCC to name the Circle afresh after Nadaprabhu Kempegowda and install his statue there.

Addressing a press meet here recently, Amrutesh said that the naming of any Circle after any personality is done taking into consideration the history attached to the area around it and this practice is being followed for decades. In this backdrop, the MCC named the Kalamandira junction as Piteel Chowdaiah Circle in 2018, considering the contribution made by the late Violin Maestro to Music. But as the MCC removed the Circle nameboard and made moves to install the statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda there, he moved the court. The City’s Civil and JMFC Court, which heard the case, has issued a restraint order directing the MCC not to name the Circle after anyone else other than Piteel Chowdaiah, he noted.

Asking the MCC to follow the Court order, he warned that he would file a Contempt of Court case against the MCC if it went ahead with its plans of naming the Circle (Kalamandira junction) after Nadaprabhu Kempegowda.

Advocates Sadanandagowda, M. Satish, P. Satish, R. Raghu and Deeksha Amrutesh were present at the press meet.