‘₹8 lakh paid per acre to ryots who voluntarily relinquished land’

Government files affidavit in High Court

Having stated earlier that four farmers had ‘voluntarily relinquished’ their six acres of land for Siddipet collectorate complex, the State government on Thursday informed the Telangana High Court that it had offered them ₹8 lakh per acre towards compensation. In an affidavit filed in HC in a writ appeal filed by four farmers of Duddeda village in Kondapaka mandal, Siddipet Collector P. Venkatrami Reddy said the four farmers, all belonging to the same family, rejected the government’s offer. They demanded a compensation of ₹70 lakh per acre, he said in the affidavit filed before a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy. The Collector explained that the government had resumed land from different persons for construction of collectorate complex and police commissionerate. An amount of ₹15.08 crore at the rate of ₹8 lakh per acre had been paid to land owners. They were also allotted house sites.