bengaluru the landscape of one of bengalurus most popular roads is set to change come january and mg road will lose shrungar shopping complex home to several stores and landmark restaurants such as queens and bookwormthe complex that stood tall for 48 years will soon feature on the list of the citys iconic structures that have become history while the egk building made way for joyalukkas old theatres like blue moon and plaza lost out to changing timeson thursday tenants at shrungar complex were issued the high court ruling passed a few weeks ago ordering them to vacate by january 31 only three units two restaurants and a photocopy store of the 60plus outlets functioning out of the complex have been given time till june 30the high court order has ended a 17yearlong legal battle we have exhausted all our options and wont be pursuing the case any further said a tenant who didnt want to be named according to him a private firm dnl enterprises entered into a 32year contract with the land owners in 1968 and constructed the complex dnl had leased out the land and rent from the 64 sites at the complex went to the firmthe lease ended in 2000 but dnl managed to get a 10year extension in 2013 a judgment favouring the owner forced dnls exit soon after all the tenants got together and pursued the case three of the tenants two restaurants and one photocopy shop took the case to supreme court where they were granted an extension till june soon after the high court ruled in the owners favour and said barring those three tenants the rest of us have to vacate the premises by january 31 said another tenantwhile some of the original tenants still continue to run their business from the complex many others have subrented the space fayaz ahmed who runs nobles art expositions with his son zubair said the original tenants had been paying dnl a nominal monthly rent of rs 2700rs 3700 however since we are renting this shop from one of them we are paying them rs 65000 a month since dnls exit none of the original tenants have been paying any rent zubair saidaccording to b hemaraju who worked with dnl enterprises as an accountant the company shut down in 2014 after losing the legal battlekrishna who runs bookworm a haunt for bibliophiles shifted his business to another address on church street a year ago but kept a small store running out of shrungar complex we moved out a year ago as we knew the order to vacate would come any time for now all the books from our smaller store will be stocked in our shop and well see where to go from there he said bookworm opened at shrungar complex in 2003queens restaurant from members of the indian cricket team to officegoers and families for 43 years the iconic queens restaurant served food to people from all