Telangana HC issues notices to HMDA over land encroachment in Shamshabad

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court, on Friday issued notices to the HMDA commissioner and several officers asking why they were not taking action on representations asking them to stop encroachments of government land in Survey No. 117 and parts of Sangiguda village of Shamshabad mandal.

The other officers whom the court issued notices to were Ranga Reddy district collector and district panchayat officer, Shamshabad municipality commissioner and Shamshabad tahsildhar. The petitioner said that some individuals and a construction firm had encroached up to four acres of land and were laying roads in the said lands.

The bench raised concern that the inaction of the authorities was causing a burden on the courts as complainants where filing petitions seeking judicial interventions.