Green Fields plot owners call Shankar Rao's bluff

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  Greenfield plot owners association president S Chandrasekhar addressing a media conference on the plot controversy in Hyderabad on Monday | A Suresh Kumar

The Green Fields Plot Owners Association, on Monday, came down heavily on Cantonment MLA P Shankar Rao’s daughter Sushmitha for claiming that her father was innocent. The MLA had tried to grab the government land which was sold to the association members fraudulently, it said.

“After the matter went to courts and after Malkajgiri tahsildar P Narsimha Rao wrote to the government in June last year stating that Shankar Rao interfered in the matter, how can his daughter say he is not involved?” questioned S Chandrasekhar, president of the association, at a press conference here.

He lashed out at the MLA alleging that he tried to grab the 75 acres of the government land by showing forged documents. Chandrasekhar also exhibited a copy of the letter written by the tahsildar (lr no. B/855/2012 dated 1-6-2012) to the Ranga Reddy district collector, in which he said Shankar’s brother P Dayanand carried out illegal construction on the land.

“The MLA was let off due to political pressure and the statement by his daughter that the chief minister was behind his ‘arrest’ is absurd because Kiran Kumar Reddy became chief minister only in 2011, whereas Shankar Rao lost court cases over the issue much before that,” Chandrasekhar said.

He added that the main contention arose when the association members found out that the 75 acres, which belonged to the government, was sold to them falsely.