TS HC quashes land allotment to Hetero founder

Hyderabad The Telangana High Court on Monday quashed allotment of 15 acres of government land in Hyderabad to a foundation headed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MP and Hetero Group Chairman B Partha Saradhi Reddy.

A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan set aside the Government Order (GO) issued in 2018 to allot the prime land in Khanamet near Gachibowli to Sai Sindhu Foundation Trust for building a cancer hospital. The court pronounced its order on a PIL filed by Dr Urmila Pingle, a medical anthropologist and human rights activist, Suresh Kumar and others.

Under the GO 59 dated March 22, 2018, the land was allotted to the Foundation for a nominal lease of Rs 1.47 lakh per year for a period of 33 years for the construction of a hospital to treat cancer and other diseases. The petitioners had challenged the allotment of the prime land worth over Rs 500 crore for a paltry lease amount. They also argued that the chairman of the Sai Sindhu Foundation is being charged with money laundering under the PMLA.