Telangana HC questions HYDRAA demolition of private property in Kondapur

Justice NV Shravan Kumar of the Telangana High Court asserted that constitutional courts cannot be faulted for scrutinising executive actions, observing that government authorities and agencies, rather than private litigants, were misleading the judiciary.

The Bench made these critical observations while hearing a petition filed by Pemmasani Sudha Rani, who alleged that revenue officials and HYDRAA unlawfully demolished a compound wall and a watchman’s room on her private plot in Survey No. 60 of Kondapur



village, Serilingampally Mandal, without notice or due process.

While HYDRAA had previously submitted that it acted on the instructions of the Serilingampally Tahsildar, the official appeared before the Court and categorically denied issuing any directive to demolish structures on the petitioner’s land. The Tahsildar clarified that official communications pertained strictly to government land in Survey No. 59, whereas the petitioner’s property was private patta land located in Survey No. 60.