Court seeks records of Miyapur lands

Case adjourned to August 1

July 26, 2017 12:27 am | Updated 12:29 am IST - HYDERABAD

A division bench of Hyderabad High Court compromising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganthan and Justice T.Rajini on Tuesday directed the Telangana Government to place relevant records pertaining to sale transactions of Miyapur lands and action taken by the government, next week.

The bench was dealing with a PIL filed by Raghunandan Rao, advocate, BJP leader.

Huge loans

He sought a direction to transfer the case to CBI. He said that the Supreme Court had restrained the registrations of all transactions pertaining to lands in Survey no 20, 28, 100 and 101 in 2014 October. After that 700 acres have been sold off. The banks gave huge loans based upon these sale deeds. He said that the investigation by local police is going astray and CBI must take over the case.

The special government pleader for Telangana government said that the officers concerned have been suspended and police registered cases.

The bench directed the government to place on record the details of sales after the Supreme Court orders and what was the action taken against the officers.

Who sold the lands and who purchased and how much money changed hands are some of the details the government is expected to submit. The case is now adjourned to August1.

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