Hyderabad: Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday directed the collectors of Ranga Reddy and Medchal districts and also principal secretary of endowments of Telangana to submit affidavits explaining the steps being taken to protect 184 acres of valuable land at Nizampet of the city, belonging to Sita Rama Anjaneya Swamy temple.
A Division Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice J. Uma Devi, was dealing with a suo motto case taken up based on a Public Interest Litigation by N. Arundathamma, 70, a resident of Hydernagar, seeking to protect the Sita Rama Anjaneya Swamy temple land from the illegal activities of the Temple Committee.
She brought to the notice of the court that the Temple Committee, headed by Kolan Srinivas Reddy, along with Sarpanch and others have alienated 184 acres of temple lands in survey numbers 308, 332 and 333 situated at Nizampet and thereafter they made the said lands as plots and sold to innocent persons and earned crores of rupees .
Bhaskar Reddy, counsel for the Revenue Department, told the court that there was some government land in the 184 acres and it has been allotted to various departments of the government.
While issuing notices to the respondents, including Srinivas Reddy, the Bench posted the case to July 31.
