Telangana High Court on Monday (June 16) directed four ruling Congress party MLAs, who filed a PIL petition seeking directions to suspend permission given to a builder to raise eight towers in 27 acres of land at Khajaguda claiming it as government land, to submit a representation to the government afresh on the matter.
The bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Renuka Yara told the PIL petitioners’ counsel Chikkudu Prabhakar that orders cannot be passed in the matter immediately as details of the disputed lands were not clearly mentioned. Directing the petitioners to take up the issue with the government by presenting a memorandum afresh, the Bench adjourned the hearing for two weeks.
MLAs Janampalli Anirudh Reddy-Jadcherla, Yennam Srinivas Reddy-Mahbubnagar, Murali Naik Bhukya-Mahbubabad and Kuchkulla Rajesh Reddy-Nagarkurnool contended that M/s Bandi Bindu were building eight towers, each of 47 floors, near Khajaguda lake in Hyderabad in 27 acres of government land. They maintained that the land belonged to State government since 1969.
But the then State government in 2023 gave building and construction permission to the builder to construct high-rise buildings in the said land. This was preceded by some litigation, advocate Chikkudu Prabhakar told the Division Bench. He said that the present government too permitted the construction through file no. 005862/GHMC/2937/SLP/2022-BP dated October 24, 2024.
