Hyderabad: BJP spokesperson M. Raghunandana Rao, a High Court advocate, on Sunday accused the state government of helping land grabbers in the name of purification of land records, and said he would file a PIL in the High Court on the matter.
Mr Rao said that in view of the High Court judgement on November 15 by Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili pertaining to a land parcel in Sangareddy prohibiting unilateral cancellation of registered deeds, fresh doubts arose as the TRS government had cancelled five registered deeds for 690 acres in Miyapur and Ibrahimpatnam.
He claimed one of those cancelled deeds pertained to land acquired by TRS MP Dr K. Kesava Rao’s family in Ibrahimpatnam. He said that the tahsildar had declared that he had recommended to the sub-registrar to cancel the deeds after he was asked by the Chief Minister’s Office.
Mr Rao asked whether the cancelled registered deeds would be valid or void in view of the High Court judgement. He also asked whether the cancelled registered deeds pertaining to ‘Goldstone’ Prasad in the controversial Miyapur land scam would also be valid or void.
He said there was a clear ploy by the state government which had come to know of the apex court judgement of 2016, based on which the High Court had passed its verdict.
He alleged that the government had tried to help film producer Chillara Kalyan in the purification of land records as the person had purchased 80 guntas and mortgaged it to UCO Bank (deed No. 2764 of 2016) and obtained loans. After a one time settlement of his loan, he got the mortgaged land documents back from the bank in which 80 guntas of lands (two acres extent) had “suddenly” become 3,87,200 square yards which is nearly 80 acres.
He alleged the said person was showing the bank document as proof of 80 acres of open land in Survey No 80 in Hafeezpet and had got it ‘purified’ in the revenue records. Mr Rao demanded a fresh probe into these and said he had decided to seek legal recourse by filing PIL in High Court.
