Hakimpet park: court hit pause, files still shut
The industrial-park push in CM Revanth Reddy’s backyard ran into a High Court brake. A new report now alleges six school acres slipped into the payout list. The paperwork that would prove it is still conveniently invisible.
At Hakimpet, the court ordered status quo; the records behind the claims remain unpublished.
Analysis — A multipurpose industrial park at Hakimpet was pushed through with a November 29, 2024 acquisition notification covering 351 acres in Hakimpet and 110 acres in Lagcherla, according to court reporting. Farmers went to the Telangana High Court — and on March 6, 2025, Justice J. Sreenivas Rao told the state machinery to stop. A Division Bench a week later ordered status quo. So much for the hurry-up.
The state’s own argument in court, as reported, was that consent awards were in progress and people wouldn’t be dispossessed without compensation. The Advocate General even said awards had been passed for 182 acres in Hakimpet and 35 in Lagcherla. That is the government’s claim; it is not a judicial finding.
Into this comes a fresh local report alleging six acres inside a Hakimpet school complex were shown as private holdings of three people — Anasuya, Kattika Usenamma and Narsimhulu — and lined up for Rs 20 lakh per acre, totalling Rs 1.20 crore. The report cites “locals” and “information”. What it does not show: the acquisition annexure carrying those names, the pahani/mutation entries creating those holdings, the award order, or a payment register. Without those, it’s an allegation, not a record.
What is on record: compensation around Rs 20 lakh per acre was publicly floated this period, along with developed plots and housing benefits in other acquisition contexts. That tells you the going rate; it does not tell you who got paid at Hakimpet, or for what land.
If six government-school acres have really migrated into a private payout list, the proof lives in boring documents: survey sketches, school transfer orders, RORs, consent awards, cheque numbers. None are public here. Until they are, the only established facts are these: the Congress-run state pushed an acquisition, the Telangana High Court hit the brakes, and the government says some awards were passed. The rest is a cloud of claims that the Congress government has not bothered to clear by publishing the annexures and the award lists.