High Court Reissues Notices to Filmmaker K. Raghavendra Rao Over Land Allotment Case

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Thursday once again issued notices to the veteran film director K. Raghavendra Rao, his brother K. Krishnamohan Rao and his family in a PIL of 2012, challenging the allotment of two acres (where RK Cineplex is located) in 1984. The land was given in Survey No. 403/1 of Banjara Hills at '8,500 per acre to construct a recording and re-recording theatre.

In 2003, the TD government allowed the construction of a mini-theatre, film training institute and a conference hall. However, the family built a commercial complex. Challenging the same, in 2012 a PIL was filed before the High Court.

Last year, the court issued notices but did not receive acknowledgement. ollowing this, a High Court bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar on Thursday, once again issued notices and set the matter for the third week of January.