HYDERABAD: Taking serious note of the non-payment of Rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R ) package to the families and victims, via-a-vis the land acquisition process conducted for Mallanna Sagar Project, the Telangana High Court on Friday sharply criticised the state government.
It warned the government that it should not blame the court if it issued stay orders on the works for the irrigation project, by taking note of the plight of the people who lost their land and homes for the irrigation project’s implementation.
The court’s green bench headed by Justice Rajasheker Reddy and Justice Naveen Rao was dealing with the petitions filed by 51 victims of the project from Vemulaghat village in Siddipet district and 26 villagers from Etigadda Kistapur. These people had complained that they had not been paid the R&R Package for their lost properties and loss of livelihood since 2019.
Counsel Ravi Kumar submitted that the government was discriminating against the…