Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court has ordered a police probe into affairs of the Mobile Welfare Society of the city for playing fraud with the court and whisking away 99 acres of costly land in Gachibowli area of the city.
While dealing with a petition by the society represented by its General Power of Attorney S. Rambabu seeking to restrain the revenue authorities from dispossessing them from the land, Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao noticed that the society had been selling government lands and surplus lands of the area with the help of a fraudulent patta certificate and taking shelter of a status quo order granted by the High Court in its favour in 2012.
Suspecting a fraud, the judge on November 21 directed petitioner to produce the relevant records to prove that the land belongs to the society and posted the case to the next day.
One the next day, neither the petitioner nor his counsel appeared before the judge.
When he perused the papers available along with the writ affidavit, it was found to be a patta certificate that showed it was granted by the social welfare department in 1991 by assigning 99 acres in Gachibowli to the society.
The land was given for providing house sites to poor people besides constructing an old age home, street children education wing and health care centres.
Observing that he never came across such an issue where the government authorises a private body like the writ petitioner society to assign land in turn to poor people chosen by it for housing purposes, the judge held that the petitioner society, prima facie is guilty of playing fraud.
The judge said there was no justifiable reason to maintain status quo order passed on October 15, 2012 and dismissed the plea of the society as it is based upon a fake and fabricated document.
While directing the Cyberabad police commissioner to constitute a special team headed by an ACP to book all the persons involved in the scam, the judge ordered to evict all unauthorised persons from the land and complete the entire exercise within 30 days.
The judge directed the commissioner to take appropriate action on the complaint lodged by Baburao Mandava and M/s. IIC Services (India) Private Limited against the society for occupying their lands which are a parcel of 99 acres.
Probe into boy’s death
An advocate of the city has moved the Hyderabad High Court seeking a direction the Telangana government to conduct a CBI probe into killing of 11-year-old Shaik Mustafauddin in Army Garrison campus at Mehdipatnam in the city on October 8, 2014.
Gulam Rabbani, an advocate moved the plea stating that the minor boy, who was resident of Siddique Nagar near Mehdipatnam, had succumbed to burn injuries and the boy, in his dying declaration, had clearly stated that two army personnel were directly involved in setting him ablaze.
He told the court that except for registering of a criminal case, the police is not proceeding with the investigation and no steps were taken to arrest the Army personnel responsible for the offence.
He contended that unless the investigation is entrusted to the CBI, there will not be fair and impartial probe.
