Fake petition: HC orders police to book lawyer

HYDERABAD: After four alleged land owners did not turn up in court as directed on Tuesday,

Justice A Ramalingeswara Rao

of the

Hyderabad High Court

directed the

HC's judicial registrar

to file a complaint with the Hyderabad police against lawyer

B Sailesh Saxena

for filing writ petitions in the name of fictitious persons.

Saxena is already behind bars for perpetrating

land-related fraud in Banjara Hills

and Mehdipatnam and cheating the state and genuine buyers of plots. TDP MLC Deepak Reddy too was arrested for his alleged connivance in the same cases.

The judge gave this directive while dealing with 12 petitions filed by Saxena on behalf of four alleged land owners namely , Iqbal Islam Khan, Nazmuddin Islam Khan, Habeeb Islam Khan and Iftekar Islam Khan. They were claiming ownership of 250 plots in Bojugutta near Mehdipatnam that extended to 68 acres and was vested with the state as part of the urban land ceiling process.

The state had allotted these plots to 250 persons belonging to the Ayodhyanagar Cooperative Housing Society and Mustafa Cooperative Housing Society in 2008. Saxena and Deepak Reddy had filed two sets of petitions in the HC against these allotments.

While Saxena's petition said they were filed by four original owners of this land and their kin, Deepak Reddy got some more petitions filed by a few persons claiming that they bought the land from the original owners.

Aghast at these developments, the genuine allottees of the two societies impleaded themselves in the case.Their counsel M Sudheer Kumar brought to the court's notice the modus operandi of the conmen and that the alleged land owners in whose names the petitions were filed were non-existent and fictitious.He also told the court that the perpetrators of the fraud wove the names around Islam Khan, the original owner of the land from whom it went to the state as part of the ULC process.

The allottees' counsel challenged Saxena to produce his clients before the court, following which the judge directed the four alleged petitioners to be present in court on July 4.

On Tuesday, when no one appeared in court, the judge was told that Saxena was arrested in two fraud cases, one of which was also the subject matter in the current case. The judge then directed the judicial registrar to file a police complaint against Saxena and others for misleading the court.