Court disposes of criminal petitions in land grab case

HYDERABAD: Justice K. Surender of the Telangana High Court disposed of a batch of criminal petitions filed to quash trespass offences concerning assigned lands in Narsingi village of Rajendranagar. The petitions filed by Manila Srisailam asked the court to set aside the charge of trespass against him and the counsel for petitioners contended that the land was assigned to the petitioners in 1962 and since then, they have been cultivating them. The respondents, who are politically influential persons, are trying to grab their land and hence, filed a series of complaints of trespass against the petitioners. The counsel further stated that the petitioners approached the tahsildar for a grant of patta to their land and that the same was under process. He stated that the petitioners belong to underprivileged and economically backward sections, and that the respondents were harassing them by filing a series of police complaints. Kalyan, counsel appearing for the complainant stated that the question of possession cannot be decided by this court in the present petition. The judge, after hearing both sides, directed the trial court to conduct trials of all the pending cases on the same date.