Hyderabad: Justice Vilas Afzulpurkar of the Hyderabad High Court, on Monday, directed the Telangana government to maintain status quo on the land allotted to the APNGO Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. in Ranga Reddy district.
The judge was dealing with a petition by the APNGOs Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., represented by its secretary N. Chandrasekhar Reddy, challenging the action of the Telangana government in resuming the land allotted to the society on the ground of non-utilisation of the land granted for the purpose.
The petitioner urged the court to set aside the action of the government. The government pleader brought to the notice of the court that the notices intimating the proposal to resume the land was issued in 2013 and acknowledgment is there.
While directing the government and the petitioner society to maintain status quo, the judge directed the respondents to file the counter affidavits on the averments of the plea and adjourned the case for four weeks. HC not to stay ED’s summons Justice Naveen Rao of the Hyderabad High Court on Monday declined to stay the summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate to Navabharat Power Private Ltd. and its promoters P. Trivikrama Prasad and Y. Harish Chandra Prasad in the Coal Block allotment scam.
The promoters of the Navabharat Company moved a petition before the judge seeking a stay of all further proceedings pursuant to the summons issued by the ED under the prevention of the Money Laundering Act.
The counsel for the petitioners apprehended that the ED may go ahead with coercive steps by attaching the properties based on the summons issued under the PMLA Act. P.S.P. Suresh Kumar, counsel for the ED, told the court that the Supreme Court has been monitoring the case and they have not launched any attachment proceedings against the petitioner or his company, which was allotted a coal block.
They were only summoned to answer certain queries on July 9.
While noting that that only summons were issued to promoters to appear before the ED to answer certain queries and attachment of properties at this stage is only an apprehension and courts will not act on such anticipated claims and unfounded fears, Justice Naveen Rao adjourned the case to July 10.
