HYDERABAD: Some of Hyderabad’s juiciest realty projects and IT majors located in Manikonda will now have to trudge to the Wakf Tribunal to defend their claim to the prime land they were presented by the state government. The projects and firms in question include Lanco Hills, Emaar Hills township, Wipro, VJI Consulting, Infosys, Microsoft, and Polaris.The High Court on Tuesday dismissed writ petitions filed by the state government, the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC), Lanco Hills and others and asked them to approach the Wakf Tribunal where the land allotment to these firms is being challenged by parties and individuals who say the lands are wakf holdings and not the government’s property to gift away.While throwing the ball in the tribunal’s court, judges V V S Rao and R Kantha Rao also dismissed writ petitions filed by MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi and others challenging the land allotments.“We are of the considered opinion that when suits filed by interested parties are pending before the Wakf Tribunal, it would not be proper for us to dwell on the merits of the case, which might have the effect of rendering the remedy before the statutory tribunal ineffective,” said the judgesAt the centre of the dispute are about 1,654 acres of land in survey numbers 260/1, 261 and 262 at Manikonda village. The government claims the land was jagir land, and accrued to it after jagirs were cancelled. It says it did pay the commutation amount to the successors or legal heirs of the mutawalli. The government’s infrastructure arm, APIIC allotted about 830 acres of the land to Lanco Hills, but several claimants challenged it in the Wakf Tribunal. The judges said, “this court cannot entertain writ petitions filed by the state and others to whom either the government or APIIC allotted portions of the Manikonda lands. ’’
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