Hyderabad: The AP government on Thursday assured the Hyderabad High Court that no coercive methods will be adopted while acquiring lands for its new capital. It said that the lands will be acquired by following due process of law.
AP advocate-general Dammalapati Srinivas gave this assurance to Justice A.V. Sesha Sai who was hearing a petition by Anumolu Venkata Tirumchand Gandhi and others, residents of Vijayawada.
The petitioners were aggrieved by the authorities not considering their representations given under the AP Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014, against pooling of their fertile multi-crop agricultural lands and blatant inclusion of their lands without completing the processes of land pooling under the CRDA Act, 2014, or land acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act, 2013.
B. Rachana Reddy, counsel for the petitioners, told the court that the lands of petitioner were within the start-up seed capital area of Amaravati and the authorities had forcibly encroached their lands by felling trees with JCBs. She said that these lands were also included in the tender notification issued under Swiss Challenge method for development of start-up area without they being acquired.
