Guilty in housing scam to face music: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao
KCR orders probe into land irregularities in the city
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao told the Assembly on Thursday that perpetrators of the irregularities in Jubilee Hills, Filmnagar, Nandagiri, Journalists' and two other cooperative housing societies will not be shielded and the government is ready to punish individuals responsible.
The government agreed to the constitution of House Committees to probe the irregularities in these cooperative societies and in Wakf land cases separately. Irregularities in allotment of lands to TNGOs will also be probed.
Congress leader M. Bhatti Vikramarka said the Congress government too did not shield any perpetrators and the party has no objection to any probe.
MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi demanded a judicial inquiry into the whole gamut of issues concerning these cooperative societies. However, since the matter is already subjudice, the government said a House Committee would suffice.
Wakf land irregularities will be probed separately by a House Committee. The CM said the government would not conceal anything and it had already received 80 bundles of files and 15,000 pages of enquiry reports pertaining to these issues.
“We are not shielding anyone. Several inquiries have been conducted into these irregularities. The government is not going to conceal anything,” he stated.
Mr Owaisi protested against a line in the Chief Minister’s statement that the Dargah Hazrath Hakeem Shah Saheb Baba has been “illegally claiming 4,448 square yards along with 323.18 acres of land.” Mr Owaisi said the land belonged to the dargah and it is Wakf land.
Irregularities pertained to the Jubilee Hills, Journalists’, Sri Venk-eteswara, Filmnagar and Nandagiri Housing Societies, Deccan Hospitals and Micro Wave Station.
About 1,398 acres of land was allotted to Jubilee Hills Cooperative Society in 1964 at '200 per acre and some part of it then was re-allotted to the other societies.
“Dr Kiranmayee pointed out large scale irregularities but those reports have been hidden. Big shots in the Telugu Film industry committed irregularities with regards to lands on a large scale. The Telugu Desam and Congress governments failed to take appropriate action,” Mr Owaisi said.