HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Tuesday sought a clarification from the state government on Wednesday on news reports which indicate that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was in favour of scrapping GO 111.
Describing the query as a bolt from blue, additional advocate general J Ramachandra Rao assured the court that he will ascertain whether the CM had made any such statement. “Tell us by Wednesday,” said a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy while hearing a PIL seeking implementation of the GO and an implead petition seeking removal of those areas that were outside the catchment area of Osman Sagar lake.
Agni Agro Tech Ltd, which has 17 acres near the lake, is now seeking a direction to the government from the high court to give effect to the recommendation made by the experts committee, contending that its land was outside the catchment area. “We have no quarrel with GO 111. We are aggrieved by the inaction of the government to act on a recommendation made by an agency commissioned by the state itself,” senior counsel Vivek Reddy said summing up the case of Agni Agro Tech.
At this juncture, Justice Vijaysen Reddy referred to a report in a vernacular daily that quoted KCR saying that GO 111 would be scrapped soon.
Meanwhile, the bench also sought to know the details of these plots and their proximity with the recently auctioned plots at Kokapet.
