By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 19 : A division bench of the AP High Court on Saturdaydirected the housingsocieties of judges, MLAs, MPs, All India service officers includingIndian Revenue Service officers and Andhra Pradesh special police, and journalists not to make allotments of housesites in favour of members until further orders.
Justice Nooty Rammohan Rao and Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy while dealing with two writ petition filed against the allotments of house sites to judges, MLAs, MPs,officers of All IndiaServices and journalists observed that "those respondents societies which have already takenpossession of the land shall not make allotment in favour of their individual members and thus create third party interest therein".
The bench also directed that "If there are already allotments made by some of the societies ,no further development by way of improving the existing status of the landshall be taken up bythem".The bench issued notices to the respondent housing societies to file their counters before July26 and asked the petitioners to file their replies before August 6.
The bench will take up the finalhearing on the petition on August 8.Dr Rao, VBJ Chelikani, resident of Tarnaka, filed a petition challenging the GOs 419,to 425 and451 of the government issued between March 23 and 27, allotting lands to housing societies of judges, MLAs, MPs, All India service officers including Indian RevenueService officers andAndhra Pradesh special police, and journalists.
The petitioner urged the court to quash the GOs.Campaign for Housing and Tenural Rights, a non-government organisation,also filed anotherpetition challenging the land allotment to the housing societies of theMLAs and others.
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