The Andhra Pradesh government has filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in Supreme Court, challenging the stay imposed by the High Court on the construction of houses for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) under the ‘Pedalandariki Illu’ scheme in the R5 Zone in Amaravati.
The State contended that house sites were allotted to about 50,000 people. The construction of houses was sanctioned and set to commence in terms of the Supreme Court order dated May 17, 2023.
It was at that stage a batch of writ petitions as filed in the High Court ‘to flog the dead horse’. The same action (allotment of house sites and connected matters) was a subject of litigation in the apex court, but instead of dismissing those writ petitions, the High Court proceeded not only to hear the matter again but also overruled the apex court order.
