PIL urges HC to strike down land regularisation scheme

HYDERABAD: Stating that schemes for regularisation are an onslaught on the planned development of cities and towns, a public interest petition was filed in the high court on Monday, challenging the state’s decision to regularise irregular layouts for a price.
M Padmanabha Reddy of Forum for good governance filed this PIL urging the court to strike down the GO 131 issued by the state on Aug 31 for this purpose.
Meanwhile, hearing several pleas challenging the state's building regularisation scheme (BRS) of 2015 has been resumed on Monday by a bench of chief justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and justice B Vijaysen Reddy. The restraint order passed by the high court in 2016 prevented the state and the civic authorities from regularising illegal buildings in the last five years. The bench sought a status report from the state and GHMC on this issue and posted the case to Oct 9.