Belagavi: The Maharashtra government is expected to suffer a huge setback in its attempt to stake claim in the Supreme Court to hundreds of villages located in Karnataka on its border.
More than a thousand historic documents have been collected by a resident of Belagavi which prove the fact that 865 disputed villages located on the border in Bidar, Uttara Kannada and Belagavi region , have been an integral part of Karnataka.
A discovery of the documents by Ravindra Totiger, an advocate, is enough to prove that Belagavi had been an integral portion of Karnataka until the reorganisation of states in 1956.
Among the documents are a series of letters and papers released by authorities of then Bombay province including appointment letters by police department, copies of court summons, auction papers, records of Deputy Registrar's office and school certificates which were in Kannada.
Copies of Sthanik Swaraj daily published by Bombay's Local Self Government which were in Kannada, have been recovered supporting the fact that authorities of Bombay government always conducted official business with authorities in Belagavi in Kannada.
