The four-laning of National Highway (NH)-17 seems to have taken a controversial turn around ex-chief minister Narayan Rane's bungalow. A reply to an RTI query filed by a villager shows that while authorities have compensated Rane handsomely for the land, they haven't yet demolished the part of his bungalow that stands in the way.

In addition to Rane's plots, the project has also taken lands from villages and Adivasi padas. His bungalow in Tara village near Karnala continues to remain untouched, even though it is in the way of the proposed widening. Only a part of it has to be demolished for the project.