Hectic lobbying currently going on by a few private individuals to claim ownership of govt property.
Hyderabad: Hectic lobbying is currently going on by a few private individuals to claim ownership of about three acre of government property in Banjara Hills area.
Recently, B.R. Meena, the principal secretary of revenue, had issued orders rejecting the claims of ownership by private persons on Plot 7A on Road No. 2 of Banjara Hills, an evacuee property.
The claimants, however, approached higher authorities following which the CMO directed the revenue department to send a note on the file relating to the land.
Sources said that Meena issued a detailed order providing the history of the case.
The dispute over the land had started in 1992 when one G. Srinivas had obtained an order from the revenue department directing the Hyderabad district collector to issue a No Objection Certificate for construction and to include his name in the revenue records as the owner.
The government, however, reversed the earlier order in 1996 and declared that the land was “evacuee property” of one Khaja Moinuddin Ansari, and was in possession of the government.
The principal secretary of revenue issued GO No. 607 last month stating that all the assets of Khaja Moinuddin Ansari had been declared as evacuee properties in 1949, but the notification was never challenged by Srinivas.
The revenue department also said that an unregistered document, the sole basis for Srinivas’ claims, had been referred to the Forensic Science Laboratory, which had said that no opinion could be given regarding the authorship of the document.
The sale agreement, according to Srinivas, was entered into in 1939 by Ansari before it was declared as evacuee property. However, Srinivas had got the document validated only in 1995.
The department also went by the opinion of the Hyderabad district collector who, after verification of records, had established that the signature of Ansari on the document produced by Srinivas did not tally with the signature on an application submitted by the former in 1939.
Meanwhile, another person, G. Deepak Reddy, also claimed ownership of the land. Meena had rejected all the claims.
