By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, March 25 :The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday granted a stay on proceedings pending in a lower court against the second additional district and sessions judge, Mr K.V. Vijayakumar, the senior civil judge, Mr D. Abbulu and the special deputy collector, Mr A.Venkateswar Rao, in connection with the Rs 3-crore lower maneru dam compensation scam in Karimnagar district.
The petitions were filed in the high court seeking a direction to quash the proceedings initiated against them for allegedly being involved in awarding compensation in 28 land acquisition cases where scamsters had produced fake documents purportedly issued by the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
The allegations against them were that the actual landowners had already taken the compensation after which the alleged scamsters posed as the landowners and sought an exorbitantly higher compensation said to have been awarded by the high court.
The lower maneru dam scam involved an amount of Rs 3.09 crore that was embezzled between 2000 and 2005.
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