2024 INSC 894
C.A. Nos. 3791-3793 of 2011 & Ors. Page 1 of 64
REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 3791-3793 OF 2011
STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND OTHERS ..... APPELLANTS
VERSUS
DR. RAO, V.B.J. CHELIKANI AND OTHERS ..... RESPONDENTS
WITH
CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 3794-3796 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 3797-3799 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 3800-3802 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 3803 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 3804-3806 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NOS 3807-3809 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 3810 OF 2011
CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2024
(ARISING OUT OF SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 19838 of 2010)
AND
CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) NOS. 1122-1124 OF 2023
IN
CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 3797-3799 OF 2011
J U D G M E N T
SANJIV KHANNA, CJI.
Leave granted in Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 19838 of 2010.
C.A. Nos. 3791-3793 of 2011 & Ors. Page 2 of 64
2. This common judgment decides the cross appeals which impugn the judgment
dated 05.01.2010, of the Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh
in Writ Petition Nos. 7956, 7997, and 23682 of 2008. These Writ Petitions
challenged the allotment of land parcels, vide several State Government
Memoranda1, within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits. The
land was allocated to Cooperative Societies composed of members of various
groups, including ...