AP High Court stays Lanco's skyscraper project
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed infrastructure firm Lanco and real estate developer Emaar Properties to stop construction work related to two separate projects in parcels of land that were found to belong to the Wakf board.
By PTI |
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed infrastructure firm Lanco and real estate developer Emaar Properties to stop construction work related to two separate projects in parcels of land that were found to belong to the Wakf board.
In an interim order, the High Court has prima facie found that the construction was going on in Wakf land and the state government has erroneously alloted the land to them.
Lanco was in the process of an constructing an IT park, which when completed would be the tallest building in India at close to 100 storeys, while Emaar is developing a 'Golden City' at Rajendranagar Mandal near here.
"Respondent 9 (Lanco) and 10 (Emmar) are directed not to make any construction in the said notified lands... situated at Rajendranagar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District," said the single member Bench of Justice V Eswaraiah in the interim order passed last week.
The High Court directions came over a petition filed by Syed Ali, a Member of Legislative Council of the state, who had requested the state to protect the Wakf land.
"I am of prima facie opinion that the said property belongs to Almighty God and the God alone is the owner of the said property, but not the government," Eswaraiah said.
In his petition, Ali alleged that the state government "illegally and arbitrarily" alloted the Wakf lands to big corporates houses including Microsoft, Infosys, Polaris and Wipro among others.
Apart from that, the government had alloted lands to Lanco and Emmar.
In an interim order, the High Court has prima facie found that the construction was going on in Wakf land and the state government has erroneously alloted the land to them.
Lanco was in the process of an constructing an IT park, which when completed would be the tallest building in India at close to 100 storeys, while Emaar is developing a 'Golden City' at Rajendranagar Mandal near here.
"Respondent 9 (Lanco) and 10 (Emmar) are directed not to make any construction in the said notified lands... situated at Rajendranagar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District," said the single member Bench of Justice V Eswaraiah in the interim order passed last week.
The High Court directions came over a petition filed by Syed Ali, a Member of Legislative Council of the state, who had requested the state to protect the Wakf land.
"I am of prima facie opinion that the said property belongs to Almighty God and the God alone is the owner of the said property, but not the government," Eswaraiah said.
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In his petition, Ali alleged that the state government "illegally and arbitrarily" alloted the Wakf lands to big corporates houses including Microsoft, Infosys, Polaris and Wipro among others.
Apart from that, the government had alloted lands to Lanco and Emmar.
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