Hyderabad: The Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC), along with revenue and police support, on Monday started taking possession of 424 acres of its land in Raidurg of Ranga Reddy district. This includes land in possession of Araku YSR Congress MP Kothapalli Geetha.
Ms Geetha accused the TSIIC and Revenue authorities of high-handed behaviour and of “forcible occupation” of her 53 acre in Raidurg, which she said she had purchased eight years ago legally after the SC declared it as private land.
She claimed ownership of the land based on a Supreme Court judgement in the Omprakash Verma & Others vs State Of AP & Others case on October 8, 2010.
Revenue officials refuted the MP’s charge and asserted that the land in question, on Survey No. 83, was government land. “Revenue authorities handed over 470 acres, including 424 acres of Urban Ceiling Land and 46 acres of agriculture ceiling land, to APIIC. In all there is 524 acres of government land in the area. After formation of TS, TSIIC owns the land. They are now putting up signboards and are fencing the land,” said Serilingampally deputy collector N. Madhusudhan.
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Asked about the YSRC MP’s claims, N. Madhusudhan, the Serilingampally deputy collector, said if the MP had a rightful title, she would get the land, or else not.
The YSRC MP had been in the news recently when she had lodged a complaint with the Panjagutta police on March 31 stating that her businessman husband P. Ramakoteswara Rao had been detained in a hotel and been forcibly made to sign on papers by a realtor and son of minister for animal husbandry T. Srinivas Yadav and others over a land dispute. The minister had denied the charge and had said there was a monetary dispute.
Meanwhile, Ms Geetha refuted TSIIC and revenue officials’ claims. “I had bought 53 acres of land from my lifetime earnings after the SC’s clearance. If there is no land, my family will be on the roads. We don’t have any other property. I don’t have an inch of land in AP, here or in Chennai,” she said.
“We have ECs, phanis, ULC NOC and we are in possession for the last eight years. But overnight the officials swooped down on us like thieves and took over the land.”
Ms Geeta said she would fight the issue and bring it to the notice of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and the Supreme Court. “The GHMC had served us a notice when it took over part of the land for road widening, but TSIIC did not give us any notice. Some officers are harassing us to settle personal scores,” she said.
