Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh Top Courtroom on Friday stayed the demolition of homes till Nov. 15 and issued an intervening time order after villagers from Ippatam village of Tadepalli mandal in Guntur district petitioned the court docket.

The villagers complained that their properties and compound partitions constructed some 30-40 years in the past had been being demolished within the guise of highway widening and prayed for a court docket order to prevent this.

A unmarried pass judgement on bench headed through Justice Ravinath Tilhari heard the petition and served notices at the essential secretary, the municipal management and the municipal commissioner of Mangalagiri, the Tadepalli municipal company and to the Ippatam gram panchayat secretary.

The court docket requested them to halt motion till Nov. 21, in response to a realize served at the villagers previous.

Petitioners’ suggest Chidambaram submitted to the court docket that the petitioners constructed their properties in their very own lands a number of years in the past. “With out any person requesting any developmental paintings, the officers proposed to widen the street.”

He submitted that once the petitioners refused to just accept the proposal for highway widening, they had been blamed for encroachment of the street and served with notices, he mentioned.

If the street widening works are to be taken up, the government are meant to absorb land acquisition and pay repayment to the villagers, he mentioned, and argued that the problem of encroachment used to be raised through the officers with a mal-intention to keep away from fee of the repayment.

He mentioned that there have been additionally political pursuits at the back of the existing construction tasks within the village.

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