No coordination between Revenue, HYDRAA authorities: HC

Observing that there ‘was an utter failure of effective administration on the part of HYDRAA Commissioner and the Revenue authorities’ in the demolition of compound wall of a property in Kondapur in Hyderabad, the Telangana High Court on Thursday instructed them to file a counter affidavit within a week in the matter. Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar of the HC, hearing a writ petition filed by a housewife Pemmasani Sudha Rani seeking to declare ‘compound wall demolition by HYDRAA’ as illegal, said there “is no coordination between” the HYDRAA and the Revenue department. “They are misleading and misdirecting themselves, thereby bypassing the orders passed by this court,” the judge noted. Such actions affected the petitioner, he said. The judge also observed that it was trite law that officials “h