The Telangana High Court on Tuesday (August 11) gave three weeks of time as ‘last indulgence’ to the State government to respond over a query raised by it in a PIL petition over allotment of two plots of 1,161 square yards and 465 square yards to K. Venkateshwar Rao and Gadwal Vijaya Laxmi, son and daughter of former MP K. Keshava Rao, respectively at MBT Nagar in Banjara Hills.
Taking a serious exception to the inordinate delay by the government to respond to the query, the bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin directed Additional Advocate General Mohammed Imran Khan to file an affidavit explaining the reasons for the delay along with the steps taken in the matter. Gadeela Raghuveer Reddy from Kondapaka of Siddipet, who filed the PIL plea, contended that the two pieces of land having crores of rupees market value were regularised in favour of the former MP’s son and daughter deviating from all procedures mandated in the GO Ms. No. 59.
According to the petitioner, instead of complying with the rules of applying to the Tahsildar concerned, the two persons represented to the Minister for Finance and the Chairman of Cabinet Sub-Committee and got the registration of the two plots regularised. This made a massive dent on the State exchequer, the petitioner contended. As per the procedures, the two persons should have paid 25% of the value of the land through demand draft to the Telangana government having applied through the Mee Seva centres, he argued.
The AAG informed the bench that a FIR was issued against the petitioner based on the complaint lodged by Venkateshwara Rao accusing him of demanding money to withdraw the PIL plea he had filed.
Published – August 11, 2026 10:01 pm IST
