HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Wednesday directed five zonal commissioners of GHMC to file detailed reports on the efforts made to keep footpaths free of encroachments in Greater Hyderabad. The court also insisted that the officials pave the way for pedestrians to use the footpaths without any hurdles.
Warning the commissioners of severe consequences for failing to comply with an earlier order of the court, a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy gave two weeks’ time to them to comply with the order now.
While rejecting the ‘eyewash’ reports furnished to the court, the bench asked GHMC counsel Pasham Krishna Reddy to stop offering frivolous excuses for gross failure of the officials. The bench also found fault with their submission because the officials had failed to execute what the court had asked them to do in the last seven months. “They are trying to hoodwink the court with ambiguous affidavits. They will have to face repercussions,” the bench warned.
The bench, in its last hearing of a PIL filed by advocate Mamidala Thirumal Rao, sought detailed action taken reports from the deputy commissioners of GHMC, who were acting as incharges for these zones.
All their reports carried a common line that they were monitoring 58 road stretches in the city.
