Hyderabad, July 8 -- The Telangana High Court has strongly criticised the indiscriminate allocation and regularisation of government lands, observing that what was once thousands of acres of public land has now dwindled to the point where even space for constructing public toilets is unavailable.

The court remarked that government lands were distributed haphazardly to various parties, including the wealthy, and that encroachments were also regularized, leading to the current scarcity.

During a hearing on Monday, July 7, Justice CV Bhaskar Reddy noted that, "Thousands of acres were once handed over to the government by the Nizam for community and grazing purposes. In those days, land was available for village community needs and for the ...