State cannot shun responsibility in providing alternate land to person who lost land for project: HC

Observing that a woman being compelled to run from pillar to post seeking allotment of land for two decades despite being granted a patta ‘defied logic’, the Telangana High Court directed the authorities to pay ₹25,000 towards legal expenses to her.Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti, pronouncing verdict in a writ petition filed by D. Ch. Chinnamma whose land got submerged in Sriramsagar project in 2006, said the ‘deliberate conscious delay’ by authorities ‘demonstrated the inaction of the State and the...