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.
The HMDA officials in March 2023 demolished a large number of temporary structures that were erected illegally on government land spread over an area of 50-acres at Shamshabad.
The officials said that some unknown persons tried to encroach on government lands in Shamshabad by raising the temporary structures.The HMDA took the assistance of Cyberabad police and demolished all the encroachments by deploying heavy machinery (JCB).
“The operation to remove the encroachments, which had mushroomed at Shamshabad, was conducted between 3 am and 8 am on Tuesday morning.We were able to pull down all the temporary structures and saved 50-acres of Government land from encroachment,” HMDA in a press release, said.
