Bhoodan Yagna Board land case: Telangana govt tells HC about panel to probe illegal sale of 103 acres
The 103 acres in Nagaram Village were sold to EIPL Constructions, represented by Kondapally Sridhar Reddy and Putta Ramannagari Praveen
By Newsmeter Network
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Hyderabad: The State Government informed the Telangana High Court that it has constituted a high-level committee to look into the alleged irregularities committed in illegal and fraudulent sale of the 103 acres of the Bhoodan Yagna Board in Ranga Reddy District to a private construction company.
The 103 acres of land are in survey numbers 181 and 182 of Nagaram Village, RR District. The government, through its memo dated March 17, explained to a Division Bench—comprising Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Yara Renuka—about the panel it formed comprising three senior IAS officers, viz., Navin Mittal IAS, Raghunandan Rao IAS and Shashanka IAS.
The Division Bench was adjudicating the writ appeal filed by Mohammed Farooz Ali Khan and five others, who are the legal heirs of the original owner of the 103 acres of land in Nagaram Village, who donated the land to the Bhoodan Yagna Board. The petitioners challenged the single judge order in the WP No. 37146 of 2022.
What is the Bhoodan Yagna Board land case about?
The Telangana Government informed the court that this committee will go through all the records, files and other documents about the said 103 acres, the procedure followed in selling the land to a private company and file a report within three weeks from March 17 to the Division Bench.
The 103 acres in Nagaram Village were sold to EIPL Constructions, represented by Kondapally Sridhar Reddy and Putta Ramannagari Praveen.
ED summons district collector over sale
When the sale took place, the then district collector of the Ranga Reddy District was D Amoy Kumar. The Enforcement Directorate, which has taken up an investigation into the sale of the said land to the private construction company has summoned the then district collector D Amoy Kumar IAS, the then tahsildar RP Jyoti and the then RDO Venkat Chary along with other private persons connected with this issue to its office to question them as to how the said land was transferred and sold to the construction company, how the sale was executed allegedly by executing fraudulent documents and will also go into the illegal transactions which took place.
The Bhoodan Yagna Board has also commenced an independent inquiry into the illegal and fraudulent sale of the 103 acres of precious land about it, sold to a private company. The Bhoodan Yagna Board issued an eviction notice to the private company and directed the district collector to cancel the Patta passbook pertaining to the said lands.
Accordingly, the Patta passbook issued to the private company was cancelled, and the name of the Bhoodan Yagna Board regarding the said 103 acres of land, located in survey numbers 181 and 182, was incorporated in the Dharani Portal.
For further hearing, the case was adjourned to April 24.
