Friday, February 1, 2008

AAI says won’t return 9 acres

The Airports Authority of India has filed a petition in the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the order of the Serilingampally mandal revenue officer asking it to surrender nine acres of land in Kancha Gachibowli village. According to the petitioner, the Hyderabad airport director, Mr R.K. Singla, the land was acquired to run a Radio Navigational Aid facility which was commissioned in 1971.
An area of 305 sq metres around the facility was kept free for technical reasons, he added. However, the mandal revenue officer passed orders on January 9 terming the land unutilised and asked the mandal revenue inspector to recover it, said the petitioner. The airport director alleged that revenue officials broke the lock of the compound wall and defaced the signboard of the AAI.

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