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‘Sanghis holding 1,913 acres surplus land’

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Tribunal likely to issue some more orders in the next few days

HYDERABAD: The Ranga Reddy District Land Reforms Tribunal has found that 1,913 acres of land held by the Sanghi Group of industries was in excess of the ceiling under the Andhra Pradesh Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agriculture Holdings) Act.

The Tribunal issued this order here on Friday, two days after it declared 1,363 acres of lands belonging to the Ramoji Group of companies as excess.

The Sanghi Group owned by Congress MP Girish Sanghi, and his brothers, runs the Telugu daily Vaartha and holds 2,770 acres of land in and around Hayathnagar in Ranga Reddy district of which 1,913 acres has now been held as excess. More orders soon

Sources said the Tribunal is likely to issue some more orders in the next few days relating to lands held by IT major Satyam besides real estate companies like Srinidhi and Narne Estates, together measuring over 2,000 acres.

The affected parties can go in for an appeal before the Appellate Tribunal.

T. Manikyala Rao, Revenue Divisional Officer, Ranga Reddy (East), who heads the Land Reforms Tribunal, was dealing with an extent of 2,953 acres in a total of nine cases, eight of them relating to the Sanghis.

Only 58 acres of the 2,770 acres relating to the Sanghis has been held as a legal holding not falling under the purview of the Act. This land is owned by Mr. Girish Sanghi himself. The ninth case relates to M/s KMS Constructions Private Limited in which 175 acres out of 183 acres has been held as excess.

The nine companies/individuals dealt with by the Tribunal’s order are: Sanghi Spinners India Limited (1,430 acres land holding), Sanghi Textiles (295 acres); Sanghi Plantations (148 acres), Sanghi Industries Limited (366 acres), Sanghi Polyesters (286 acres), Sanghi Zip Fastners (112 acres), Sanghi PloyZips (75 acres), Girish Sanghi (58 acres) and KMS Constructions (183 acres)

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