The Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to re-examine an order of May 2023 that regularised illegally encroached land parcels in Banjara Hills in the favour of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mayor Vijayalaxmi Gadwal and her brother K Venkateshwara Rao, and “rectify the impugned order, if deemed necessary.”

The Division Bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G M Mohiuddin was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by Gadeela Raghuveer Reddy, who sought the court’s intervention to declare the government order dated May 23, 2023, as illegal, saying it was in contravention to the state’s land regularisation policy notified via GO Ms 59 of 2014.

The petitioner’s counsel, Shreyas Reddy Y, contended that the GO reg

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