Commissioner Ranganath inspected the site on May 14, and held a meeting with both the parties and surveyed the documents in their presence.
Hyderabad:HYDRAA conducted two encroachment removal drives at Kukatpally and Manikonda on Monday, and reclaimed HMDA-approved layout lands, along with a layout’s parklands and roads.
At Kukatpally’s Hydernagar, HYDRAA reclaimed HMDA-approved lands of Diamond Hills layout. The layout, which was prepared in the year 2000, consisted of 79 plots and was then approved by HUDA.
HYDRAA alleged that in 2007, Dr N.S.D. Prasad encroached around seven acres of the layout by showing the land as agricultural through a bailiff and getting an ex-parte decree. The plot owners complained to HYDRAA against Dr Prasad, stating that he had encroached on a swimming pool, roads, park and plot boundaries.
They alleged that they filed a case in the High Court, during which time Dr Prasad gave different portions of the land to rent for commercial activities like car parking, and earned `50 lakh per month. They alleged that he collected rents from those businesses for a span of eight years.
They complained that despite the High Court giving them clearance on September 9m 2024, he did not budge and further built fencing on the plots and did not allow them to visit the land.
HYDRAA said that they called both the parties to a meeting, and verified documents in their presence. Following this, HYDRAA commissioner A.V. Ranganath ordered for the removal of the encroachments.
At Manikonda’s Puppalguda, HYDRAA removed structures on a land over which a dispute is in the court. HYDRAA received complaints from the residents of Dollar Hills layout, where they said that the layout owner has encroached on the lands.
The layout, created by Santosh Reddy in 1998, covered 60 acres and he sold nearly 80 per cent of the plots under HMDA’s preliminary layout. The layout was rejected by the HMDA in 2005, after which Santosh Reddy and other layout owners allegedly colluded and converted the land for agricultural purposes without the knowledge of the plot owners.
Santosh Reddy and others later joined the two-acre parkland and roads of the layout to another property, and sold it. The dispute has been in the court since 2016, and despite the fact that no constructions should be undertaken on the land which is in the court, they allegedly raised boundary walls and structures on the land.
Commissioner Ranganath inspected the site on May 14, and held a meeting with both the parties and surveyed the documents in their presence. After further investigations, HYDRAA demolished the structures on Monday.
