In Hyderabad, an exclusive police station for lakes, land, lung spaces

The Indian Express took a peek into the functioning of this unsocial constabulary station, which volition travel nether nonstop supervision of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) Commissioner A V Ranganath, adjacent earlier it is allotted bureau space.

Ramanaiah told The Indian Express, “We had petitioned the gross officials respective times earlier turning up here. We are hopeful that the constabulary present volition springiness america our onshore back.”

Shortly aft Ramanaiah’s lawsuit was heard, came different petitioner — K S N Reddy. A nonmigratory of the posh Saroornagar country successful Hyderabad, Reddy said that astir 30 acres of the Saroornagar water had been encroached upon.

“The water has shrunk from 90 acres to 60 acres owed to amerciable constructions,” Reddy, who has been surviving successful the country for 26 years, told The Indian Express. “Either the buildings person to beryllium regularised nether the instrumentality oregon demolished for violating biology laws.” He carried with him a representation of the shrunken lake.

Reddy’s grievance, too, was noted down by a constabulary serviceman of the fertile of inspector.

Back wrong his office, HYDRAA Commissioner Ranganath, an IPS officer, was surrounded by a assemblage of petitioners, who had travel successful to rise their grievances regarding akin cases of water and onshore encroachments — portion immoderate wanted a speedy inspection of the sites, others wanted a wide assurance of demolitions.

“Now each the cases, hundreds of them, that HYDRAA had lodged successful antithetic constabulary stations volition beryllium transferred to this constabulary station,” Ranganath said.

According to an bid issued by the authorities authorities connected January 7, the constabulary presumption volition beryllium headed by an serviceman of the fertile of Assistant Commissioner of Police. “This volition beryllium a squad of constabulary officers who are committed to biology extortion due to the fact that we are doing this for posterity — for our children,” Ranganath said.

Adjacent to Ranganath’s office, successful B-Block of Buddha Bhavan, immoderate information officers were giving last-minute instructions to carpenters who were mounting up cubicles for the constabulary station.

Another petitioner, N Venkatesh, said, “Hyderabad has dozens of lakes and naalas which marque the metropolis unique. It is the work of each national to support these, particularly erstwhile the metropolis is facing municipality flooding during the past fewer years.”

The disapproval against the HYDRAA constabulary station’s operations, however, is that respective radical who person already been surviving successful buildings built connected encroached onshore person nary enactment but to woody with demolitions which hap alternatively quickly. So far, Hyderabad has seen demolitions of an array of villas, normal centres and adjacent idiosyncratic houses, which were built connected water beds. Ranganath, however, said, “Those who person usurped the onshore are precise influential radical who tin capable the lakebed and conception connected apical of that. The constabulary presumption is going to beryllium a headache for them”.

With HYDRAA being the brainchild of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, the constabulary presumption volition besides beryllium nether scrutiny of Opposition parties successful the state, including the BRS and BJP. HYDRAA’s powers are being utilized to settee governmental scores, some parties person alleged.

The January 7 Government Order, however, intelligibly states: “The constabulary presumption volition record cases against landgrabbers, encroachers and different nationalist spot damagers…”

Summing up, petitioner Ramanaiah said, “If specified a constabulary presumption did not exist, we would person been doing the rounds of 3 constabulary stations successful Hyderabad wherever we person lodged land-grab complaints.”