Telangana High Court on Tuesday closed two Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petitions pertaining to encroachment of Waqf Board lands, after perusing the status report filed by the State government assuring protection of all such lands.
A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar passed the order after Special Government Pleader Harender Pershad presented the report before the bench. The SGP told the court that different pieces of lands scattered across the State, total admeasuring 84 acres and 30 guntas were under the clutches of land grabbers.
All these lands had been recovered from the land sharks by the Waqf Board by initiating legal processes against them. Another piece of land of one acre and 32 guntas was also retrieved from the illegal occupation of land grabbers under survey no. 415 of Hasanparthy in Warangal district, the SGP informed the bench.
