HC tells BJP leader to give info on Miyapur

The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday asked BJP leader M. Raghunandan Rao, who is seeking a CBI probe into the Miyapur land scam, to place the additional information that he claims to have on the scam, before it through an affidavit within three weeks.

A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice J. Uma Devi was hearing the plea by Mr Rao.

He told the court that the scam was not confined to only 682 acres in Miyapur village but another 700 acres of government land was whisked away by unscrupulous elements in 14 villages in and around Miyapur. He said that he had evident to prove that this was done with the help of forged and fabricated documents and also misinterpretation of the orders of the court.

The bench told him to the place the evidence he had before the court.

TS A-G D. Prakash Reddy said that as soon as it came to its notice that one P.S. Parthasarathi of Trinity Infrastructure Ltd and P.V.S. Sharma of Suvishal Power Generation Ltd had transferred state-owned lands in Miyapur village, the government registered a criminal case against the duo and a sub-registrar. He said that later, the three were arrested and based on their confession 13 others were added to the list of accused.

Mr Prakash Reddy told the court that the government has restored the 686 acres by cancelling the illegal documents within a short span of time.

Replying to a query from the bench, he said a probe into the transactions pertaining to the lands in Hafeezpet village was on and details couldn’t be revealed at this stage.