Hafeezpet Sy. No. 78: Telangana HC initiates contempt case

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has suo moto initiated contempt proceedings against revenue authorities for not deleting Sy No
78 of Hafeezpet from the prohibitory register to facilitate the registration of properties.In a related development, the court levied a fine
of Rs 10,000 on the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for denying permission to two individuals to build their house in 300 square
yards (sq
yds) and 461 sq
yds of land respectively in Sy No
residential complexes by Mahindra Ashvita, Prajay and Aditya in 10-20 acres in the same survey number.While the High Court had set aside the
notification issued under Section 22A of the Registration Act, 1908 in 2014 itself, it again directed the authorities to delete the land
parcels in Sy No
78 of Hafeezpet from the prohibitory list in October 2019.During a recent hearing of a case, a division bench comprising Justice M.S
Ramachandra Rao and Justice T
Amarnath Goud took serious note of the government ignoring both the orders and directed the registry to issue a show-cause notice to the
took the suo moto contempt order to the notice of the Supreme Court on Friday by submitting it as additional material in an ongoing case in
the apex court
of the government towards the rich and discrimination against commoners also came to the fore in the High Court case
authorities) had granted construction permission for high rise buildings to M/s Prajay Engineers Syndicate Limited for an extent of 20
G.K
village has been rejected right up to the Supreme Court, it was not open to the government to still plead that it has a right on the subject
land and deny building permissions, the High Court pointed out.