Revanth Reddy resorting to ‘credit chori’ in land cases fought by BRS govt.: Harish Rao

BRS leader T. Harish Rao criticized Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for claiming credit for the Supreme Court victory in the Miyapur lands case. Rao stated that the BRS government until 2023 had won numerous land cases to protect government lands. He alleged that Revanth Reddy was targeting the District Collector to sell 550 acres of land in Miyapur before receiving the Supreme Court judgment.

Out of 192 hearings in the Miyapur case, 86 were handled by C.S. Vaidyanathan, appointed by the BRS government, while only 11 hearings took place after the Congress came to power. Rao also accused the previous Congress government of weakening the Greyhounds land case in 2010 by sending a government pleader instead of the advocate general.

The KCR government filed an appeal in May 2017 and the High Court gave a favorable judgment on December 31, 2021. The Supreme Court finalized the decision on August 1, 2023, securing the 142 acres of land for Greyhounds. Rao claimed that the compound wall of the Greyhounds facility was demolished overnight and a new wall was constructed, leaving 10.10 acres of land to private persons.

The land was registered in the name of Dream Valley (Santosh Reddy) without paying the registration fee, and additional registrations took place, totaling ₹1,000 crore worth of government land. The Greyhounds land scam was valued at around ₹2,000 crore, and Rao stated that the BRS government had sent Goldstone Prasad to jail.