HYDERABAD: Pulling up the state for deceiving the widow of a freedom fighter by going back on a promise to provide house plot, the Telangana high court on Wednesday directed revenue authorities to allot her 300 square yards within 30 days.
“She is entitled to 300 square yards. Not 80 square yards. It is not charity. Give her 300 square yards within a month,” a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili said on Wednesday
The bench said it was not ready to believe the state counsel’s argument that there was no land with the government in Warangal to give her.
The bench was hearing a petition filed by Bairoju Chulkamma from Warangal whose husband Lakshmaiah was a freedom fighter from Hanamkonda. She was seeking a house plot as per the policy and the district authorities had already given such plots to nine others. In her case, they were offering 80 square yards plot citing lack of land as a reason.
Chulkamma had, in fact, withdrawn her initial petition after the authorities promised her 300 square yards. But later they ignored her request again. When she filed a writ petition, the authorities told a single judge that this was her second petition on same grounds and the judge dismissed her plea.
She then filed a writ appeal before the division bench which found fault with the authorities.
