Supreme Court Upholds Telangana Rights to Miyapur Land

The Supreme Court upheld Telangana’s rights over 550 acres of government land in Miyapur, and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said officials had been instructed to take possession of it. Reddy welcomed the ruling in remarks to reporters in Delhi on Friday, October 30. He said the land, in survey numbers 100 and 101, would be taken over by the state. The court’s decision followed a dispute over ownership of the property in the Miyapur area of Serilingampally mandal, Rangareddy district. Reddy accused former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, known as KCR, his associate Damodar Rao and businessman Goldstone Prasad of attempting to encroach on the land and tamper with revenue records. Those accusations were made by Reddy; the reports do not independently establish them. He also accused the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi government of misusing the Dharani land-records portal and pressuring officials in disputes over government property. The chief minister said a Cabinet subcommittee on resource mobilisation would examine whether to sell the Miyapur land and how proceeds could be used. He identified education as one possible beneficiary, while also referring to public...