Bahadurguda: protest warned, protest resumes
Police turned up in Bahadurguda on Sunday morning, pulled down farmers’ protest flexes and cited Section 144. The farmers restarted their hunger strike anyway. The land itself? Still disputed — even in court.
At Bahadurguda, the protest resumed as the land’s proposed use remained unsettled.
Police led by Shamshabad Circle Inspector Surender Reddy went to Bahadurguda on Sunday morning, removed protest flexes with panchayat staff and warned farmers their hunger strike had no permission under Section 144, according to a local report published early Monday. The farmers resumed the protest after the warning. The police later posted a picket in the village limits. (Source: report cited below.)
The land at the centre of this has been reported as about 650 acres around Survey Nos. 28 and 62 near Shamshabad. Earlier this month villagers blocked a survey team that said it was mapping land for a proposed bullet‑train facility; the Shamshabad tahsildar told that team to leave, per contemporaneous reports. What the land is “for” has varied by the day — bullet train, bus terminal, metro terminal — because no primary project document is on the table yet.
On the record, even the identity of the land is contested. In a 2024 High Court order in a related Bahadurguda dispute, the state said it was government land; the Court recorded there was a dispute over identifying the property and told parties to maintain status quo pending demarcation. Press reports say the Court again ordered status quo on the current parcels in July 2026, with the next hearing listed for 11 August — the order itself has not been located in the public database in this search.
Local reports through July described heavy police deployment, fencing moves by HYDRAA and Revenue, and FIRs naming dozens of protesters, including political leaders. Those FIR copies and the Section 144 order were not available in the material accessed; until they are, they remain reported claims, not documents.
One uncontested fact from Sunday: the state turned up to say “stop”, and the farmers kept going. The BJP at the Centre and the Congress now running the state both love a mega‑project photo‑op; neither has bothered to publish the basics here — the survey map, the notification, the compensation terms. Telangana’s farmers should not have to guess which grand plan their fields are being counted for this week.