A High Court bench comprising justices V Eswaraiah and N Ravi Shankar on Monday admitted a plea seeking cancellation of land allotted by the state government to noted film director K Raghavendra Rao and three others in the posh Banjara Hills area of the city in 1984.
E Balakishan, film producer, moved the court alleging that the allottees constructed a multiplex on the land contrary to the norms
prescribed for the use of land which was allotted under concessional rate. The government had allotted two acres of land in favour of
Raghavendra Rao, his brother Krishna Mohana Rao and another relative and music director Chakravarthi in 1984 with an intention to promote Telugu film industry in Hyderabad. When they failed to utilise the land for the purpose, the then government initiated resumption process which Raghavandra Rao succeeded in stalling, he said and pointed out that theatres, pubs, bars and restaurants were in operation on the land contrary to the conditions agreed.
The bench issued notices to the allottees and the state government directing them to file their counter affidavits in two weeks.
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