Deccan Chronicle

TRS LEADER ASSAULTS REALTOR

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Former MLA from Mahbubabad Sriram Bhadraiah was booked by the Chaitanyap­uri police on Sunday for assaulting a realtor using the butt of his licensed gun in Kothapet.

Mr Bhadraiah was in the Telugu Desam in the past, and is in the ruling TRS now.

Seven realtors forged documents of a government assigned piece of land in a village at Ghatkesar, made layouts and sold it claiming that they had clearances from the gram panchayat. The landowners realised that they have been cheated after revenue authoritie­s demolished the newly constructe­d houses.

The victims approached the police and a case was registered against the realtors. Mekala Durga Reddy and his partners A. Venkatesh, B. Srikanth, Ch. Venkat Reddy, Rakesh Reddy, J. Narendar Reddy and R. Venkat Reddy were booked for cheating and criminal breach of trust.

Police said Gunji Sambaiah and eight others purchased land from the accused in the layouts in Saidurgana­gar of Chowdarigu­da. The suspects told the victims that the layouts have permission­s from the gram panchayat and the Hyderabad Metropolit­an Developmen­t Authority and so they started constructi­ng houses. But the constructi­on was stopped by the Medchal collector and revenue officials as the layouts were not regularise­d under the Layout Regularisa­tion Scheme They also issued notices to the victims thrice in June and in July.

Authoritie­s of the gram panchayat, mandal and collector came with bulldozers and demolished parts of constructe­d houses, but when the victims requested, the officials left, police said. The suspects switched off their phones and went absconding. Realising that they had been cheated, the victims lodged a complaint with the police.

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