Telangana HC reserves panchayat relocate to expel Guttikoya people from town

Hyderabad: Justice Kanneganti Lalitha of Telangana High Court on Monday reserved the resolution of Bendalapadu gram panchayat in Chandrugonda mandal of Bhadradri Kothagudem district to expel Guttikoya neighborhood forest residents, who live in their jurisdiction to Chhattisgarh state, in the background of the current event of killing of forest variety officer Ch Srinivasa Rao. The resolution was authorized by the panchayat secretary of the town on November 26 and sent out to greater authorities. Apparently authorities and forest authorities have actually taken actions to force out the Guttikoyas from Errabodu forest. Aggrieved at the choice, cops and forest authorities of Guttikoyas approached the High Court, looking for to reserve the resolution. Justice Lalitha specified that the gram panchayat has no right to pass such unconstitutional resolutions, which impacted the right to live. Chikkudu Prabhakar, arguing counsel, and D. Ambedkar, counsel on record, on behalf of the petitioners sent that the Guttikoyas had actually been residing in the jurisdiction of the V Schedule of the Constitution given that1998 Prabhakar mentioned judgments of the Supreme Court on the right to reside in ‘Olga Tellis v Bombay Municipality Corporation’, ‘ Samatha v State of Andhra Pradesh’, which is thought about a benchmark judgment. …
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