The Telangana High Court has set aside the orders of the previous BRS government, which had de-notified around 52 acres of land from the prohibited list and declared it as private land in Survey No. 63 of Guttala Begumpet, behind the Marri Chenna Reddy HRD Institute. Amoy Kumar was the collector of Rangareddy district, where the area falls, in 2022, and had issued the orders.
Amoy Kumar was recently grilled by the Enforcement Directorate about his alleged involvement and financial gains out of land dealings as collector of Rangareddy and Medchal districts during the BRS previous government. He was also questioned about the Guttala Begumpet land case. Despite the status quo orders issued on the entire land of 73 acres and 39 guntas of Survey No.
63 of Guttala Begumpet, Amoy Kumar, on August 8, 2022, issued proceedings denotifying around 52 acres. A communication was addressed to the registration authorities to allow registration over the land. It was learnt that the land was gifted to a private individual, allegedly a benami of a top realty firm; this was unearthed when the income-tax department raided the realty firm.
Justice K. Lakshman of the Telangana High Court set aside the orders of Amoy Kumar, while dealing with a batch of petitions filed by Raunaq Yar Khan, Bukthyar Khan and their family members, who claimed that the land was private and not belonging to the government. The Khans had claimed that they had inherited the property by virtue of a gift deed dated March 31,.
