After labelling actor Nagarjuna’s N-Convention Centre as ‘Unauthorised Construction’, the GHMC is gearing up to take punitive action. A notice to this effect – as per the High Court directions – would be issued very shortly as per GHMC commissioner Somesh Kumar.
In a joint operation with Irrigation and Revenue officials the GHMC conducted the land survey of Thammidikunta Lake – Tummidipally cheruvu as per the revenue records – in Khanapur limits near Madhapur. The survey concluded that the Convention centre had encroached 3.12 acres of the lake. The sprawling Convention centre measures upto 6.9 acres.
“The Centre encroached into about 1.12 acres inside the Full Tank Level (FTL) while another two acres of the building falls in the buffer zone”, said
K Vidyasagar, tehsildar of Serilingampally mandal. The lake measures 29.24 acres as per the government records.
Actor Nagarjuna and Nalla Preetham Reddy, founder partners in the shady venture, moved the High Court and argued through their counsel that the GHMC did not issue them notices before taking up the survey.
K Ramakrishna Reddy, advocate general of Telangana state, told the High Court that the entire structure of N-Convention Centre near Gurukul Trust lands at Khanamet was illegal since it was constructed without obtaining any building permission from the Greater Hyderabad Muncipal Corporation. He made it clear that the authorities would follow due process of law to initiate any action, including demolition of structures.
Nagarjuna’s counsel P Sri Raghuram pleaded that the actor bought the land from Gurukul Ghatkesar Trust in 1992 and got the property transferred in his name. Reacting to these arguments, the AG said the GHMC had categorically rejected the actor’s application for regularising the building on August 12, 2010, and the actor then approached the High Court and obtained a stay the next day with the false plea that the GHMC officials were not taking any final decision on his application.
The High Court on Wednesday directed the Telangana state government to issue notice before initiating any action against the N-Convention Centre. GHMC Commissioner said that legal opinion was sought to prepare a fool-proof notice to be served on the Centre and one of the Tollywood’s most influential actors.
GHMC has been acting swiftly and firmly on illegal constructions and landgrabbing following the Chief Minister K Chanrasekhar Rao’s orders that no such misadventures be spared, however mighty and influential the perpetrators might be. Pursuant to the directive, the GHMC has painted caution notices and warning boards on as many as 1,225 buildings, plots and commercial complexes that have been constructed in the Gurukul Trust lands without permission.
It is learnt that the actor’s efforts to entice KCR directly and through mediation fell flat and the actor is literally staring down the barrel of GHMC!