Source: business-standard.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Town Planning wing of Greater Vishakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has issued a notice to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for illegally carrying out construction works in the party’s local office here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vidyulatha, Town Planning supervisor of Zone 3, GVMC, said: “TDP has constructed two floors for the party office in Ward No 19 illegally and no link documents were submitted to establish the title over the property.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The notice, issued on June 28, reads: “TDP should produce the documents related to the land within a week. And if the TDP does not submit the documents within a week, then the office will be removed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rehman, TDP’s city unit president, while speaking to ANI, said: “The land for the party office was taken for the lease from the government in 2002 for 25 years at a price of Rs 2,500 per year and we are paying it to the government every year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said the land belongs to Andhra Pradesh government and very soon they will meet the GVMC Commissioner in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TDP has also asked for the link documents from Rani Kamala Devi, as the land belonged her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1967-68, then chairman of Town Planning Trust acquired some parts of the land by invoking the Land Acquisition Act and paid some compensation to the owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But soon a case was filed in the civil court as some dispute arose between both the parties. The court passed a ruling in favour of Rani Kamala Devi, making her the owner of the 60 acres of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1998, the Tehsildar of Visakhapatnam Urban filed a petition before the Commissioner of Survey Settlements and Land Record for cancelling Kamal Devi’s ownership, after which the land was handed over to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2009, Devi filed a petition in the AP High Court which passed the decision in her favour and the Commissioner’s order was struck down<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subsequent to the High Court’s order, the government filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court but in 2012, the apex court dismissed the petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, the bungalow of AP Governor ESL Narasimhan and a GVMC water tank are located on the land along with the TDP’s party office.<\/p>\n