The Telangana High Court on Wednesday dismissed the state government’s claim to 26 acres of land in Khanamet village, Serilingampally mandal, Ranga Reddy district, worth approximately Rs 2,000 crore.
A High Court bench comprised of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice S Nanda dismissed the State government’s writ appeal claiming prime land in Khanamet.
The court stated in its decision: We do not see any basis to disagree with the single judge order. The order of a single judge barred the then-government from evicting the petitioners from the property at issue.
We do not find any good ground to reverse such a finding rendered by the single judge, the bench said after hearing two writ petitions filed by the Telangana government claiming ownership of the 26 acres of property in Khanamet.
Petitioners P Govind Reddy, late D Rama Naidu, former MP D Suresh Babu, film actor D Venkatesh, and others were represented by senior counsel P Sri Raghuram. He argued against the State’s claim that the people from whom the petitioners bought the land were not ex-servicemen and that the land had been in the hands of the government since 1951.
Previously, in 2009 and 2010, two single judges barred the then-government from evicting the petitioners from the land, and the Telangana High Court upheld those rulings.
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