A division Bench of Hyderabad High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Ganga Rao on Tuesday wanted the Telangana government to clarify whether the Victoria Memorial Home Residential School, Hyderabad, where the Police Commissionerate, Rachakonda is to come up is a trust/endowment property or a property of the government.

The bench was dealing with a PIL filed by former students. Satyam Reddy, senior counsel appearing for the petitioners, said that this a trust property and comes under endowments. The property was given by the Sixth Nizam for the benefit of poor orphans. He lamented that the government issued GO to build police headquarters here without any authority. J. Ramachandra Rao, Additional Advocate General of Telangana said that this is government property. Of the 74 acres of home land, only 10 acres were allotted for the police headquarters, he said. The bench felt that at present there will be no need of demolition, but did not pass any orders to that effect. The case will be heard next week.

As carried in TH