Hyderabad: With the Telugu Desam being an ally of the NDA government at the Centre, the TRS leaders anticipate that the Centre may not act swiftly on ordering a probe, and to counter this they feel that the legal course of action would be the better option.
“Despite severe irregularities in land allotments to IMG Bharata and Emaar, Mr Naidu went scot free. The successive governments in the undivided state failed to pursue these cases seriously.
We want to expose the irregularities in land allotments during Mr Naidu’s tenure, since the valuable lands of Telangana state are at stake in these cases,” said a source in the TRS government.
The YSR government, in September 2006, had cancelled the IMG Bharata land allotment and referred the matter to the CBI to probe the issue and written to then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for the purpose.
However, the CBI had failed to take up the case. After two PILs were filed on this issue, the AP High Court had also pulled up the CBI in August 2012 for expressing its inability to probe the IMG Bharata land scam even after the YSR government had sought a probe.
The petitioners had brought to the notice of the court that the CBI joint director in Chennai had written to the state government saying that the CBI could not take up the case due to manpower constraints.
