Hyderabad Green Pharma City will come up at same place: Telangana Govt to HC

Advocate-General A. Sudershan Reddy representing the government informed the court that the project initiated by the previous BRS government through GO 31 was intact. He said that the farmers and landowners, whose land were yet to be acquired, would get suitable compensation.

Justice K. Lakshman of the Telangana High Court was dealing with a batch of writ pleas and contempt cases filed by farmers and landowners who were affected by the proposed Pharma City. The petitioners from Medipally and Kurmida villages challenged the land acquisition proceedings and were successful in obtaining an order setting aside the acquisition awards and declarations.

With regard to the cases filed by the petitioners from Nanaknagar, the court stayed the acquisition proceedings. Despite this, the revenue authorities were not entering their land in the Dharani portal and not extending Rythu Bandhu benefits.

The Advocate-General assured the court that the government would hold negotiations with the farmers and they will be provided fair and reasonable compensation. The AG also informed the court that the Rythu Bandhu will also be provided at once along with the compensation.

Petitioners’ counsel Ch. Ravi Kumar argued that Rythu Bandhu was meant for seasonal investment to farmers and criticised the government's approach of paying it at a later stage, in the absence of existing award proceedings. He said the petitioners had been suffering the consequences of unsuccessful land acquisition proceedings for seven years. It was brought to notice of the court that certain petitioners were receiving Rythu Bandhu assistance after filing contempt cases.

The court directed the petitioners to make representations to the authorities for availing benefits within a week and directed the authorities to consider the same within two weeks thereafter. The judge directed the government to submit an affidavit detailing the negotiations conducted with the villagers and the efforts taken to resolve the issue.

A division bench of the Telangana High Court, comprising Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Namavarapu Rajeshwar Rao, on Monday heard a petition challenging the amended norms prescribed for reservation for physically challenged persons and roster points in the notification for Group-1 posts, issued by Telangana Public Service Commission.

The petitioners also challenged GO 29 , which did not apply the rule of reservation in respect of each category of reserved candidates independently in the 1:50 ratio (50 times) to the main written examination of Group-1 services.

To examine the impact of amendments to the rules and to enable senior counsel for the petitioners to produce the amended rules ,the court adjourned the hearing to September 25.

The Telangana High Court on Monday reserved for orders in the bail application filed by Yadati Sunil Yadav, second accused in the murder case of YSRC former MP Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy.

T.L. Nayan Kumar, representing Sunil Yadav, submitted that the accused was in jail since 2021 while most of the others had got bail. He pointed out that a poor person like Yadav was incarcerated and that real conspirators and beneficiaries of the murder — Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy, his father Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy and Siva Shankar Reddy —were set free.

Anil Tanwar for the CBI and counsel S. Goutham representing Dr Nareddy Suneetha, daughter of Vivekananda Reddy, sought dismissal of the plea on the ground that there are no change of circumstances after the dismissal of his previous bail application on May 3, 2024. It was also pointed out that there was direct evidence in the form of eye witness accounts supporting the case against Yadav.

Goutham highlighted the need for balance between individual rights and the fair and transparent administration of justice. He said the Manish Sisodia judgment cannot be applied in a routine manner especially when the nature of crime is heinous, the accusations are severe and the severity of punishment is up to life sentence.