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A.P., Jayalalithaa asked to maintain status quo

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday asked the State Government and AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa to maintain `status quo' in respect of land in the Maheswaram mandal of Ranga Reddy district. The Division Bench of Justice P.S. Narayana and Justice M. Ramamohana Rao passed the order.

High Court Judge V.V.S. Rao had earlier dismissed the petition moved by Ms. Jayalalithaa challenging the Congress Government's move to resume her farmhouse on the city outskirts as "misconceived and devoid of merit." In January, the Revenue Department served the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, who owns a vineyard of eight acres at Pet Basheerabad, with a notice, claiming that she possessed assigned land, originally alienated in favour of the landless poor. She filed a writ petition in April. She dubbed the move as "political vengeance" and sought more time to submit documents and other records to prove that there was no irregularity.

PTI

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