The Telangana High Court today slammed the government for giving expensive land at a cheap price to film director N Shankar for a film city.
Hearing a petition on the land row, the court asked the government how it could offer land worth Rs 2.5 crore for a paltry Rs 25 lakh.
The court ruled out giving land at low prices to people belonging to the film industry, saying that such actions would send a wrong signal, and that cabinet decisions needed to have some rationale.
The government could itself construct a film city instead, the court observed.
The court also asked what need there was for another film city when the world-famous Ramoji Film City was located right in the city.
The government counsel said that Shankar had played a key role in the statehood movement, and so the land allocation is made. The court objected to this saying that the government would need to allot lands to many such people based on that reasoning.
"It is not correct to give expensive land at low rates to anyone," the court said.
It then adjourned the case by two weeks.
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