By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 10: A division bench comprising Chief Justice AR Dave and JusticeR Subhash Reddy will take up hearing on Friday a writ petition challenging the allotment of house sites to judges, MLAs, MPs, All-India service officers and journalists.
Mr KS Murthy, advocate for the petitioners, on Thursday made a special mention before the bench that the government had allotted lands worth Rs 4000 crore to judges,MLAs, MPs, All India service officers and journalists at throw away prices. He urged the court to take up the issue as urgency, otherwise the land will begoing to be registered in the name of their societies by Friday afternoon.
Justice Dave said "it's not possible today and the matter will be taken upon Friday".
Dr Rao, VBJ Chelikani, resident of Tarnaka, filed a petition challenging the GOs 419,to 425 and 451 of the government issued between March 23 and 27, allotting lands to housing societies of judges, MLAs, MPs, All India service officers including IndianRevenue Service officers and Andhra Pradesh special police, and journalists. Thepetitioner urged the court to quash the GOs.Mr OM Debara, a retired employee, filed a contempt petition against the government stating that the allotments were in contrary to the earlier judgement ofthe AP HighCourt.
Campaign for Housing and Tenural Rights, a non-government organisation,also filed another petition challenging the land allotment to the housing societies of the MLAs and others.
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