Hyderabad: Two officials — the defence estate officer and the general officer in command of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board — were punished with jail for a period of two months for their “wilful disobedience” and violation of the decree of permanent injunction passed by the city civil court of Secunderabad.
The XXVII additional chief judge’s court which passed the sentence was dealing with an interim application filed by Anand Bala and others who sought action against officials of the Defence Estate Office for not allowing them access to their six-acre patta land at Yapral that lay close to the quarters of defence officers.
In 2017, the court had issued a decree in favour of Anand Bala and others, ruling that the land was absolutely a patta land and in no way related to either the land belonging to the defence department or the Cantonment Board. The court had also issued injunction orders restraining the defence department from entering the land belonging to…
