New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- The Supreme Court today dismissed a batch of review petitions challenging its November 2024 judgment that struck down preferential allotment of lands within the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits to housing societies of MPs, MLAs, civil servants, judges, defence personnel, journalists and others.
A Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice A.G. Masih rejected the pleas after hearing arguments from a large team of senior advocates, including C.S. Vaidyanathan, Anitha Shenoy, Mukul Rohatgi, Siddharth Luthra, Atmaram Nadkarni, Bikashranjan Bhattacharya, Jaideep Gupta and Dama Seshadri Naidu appearing for the petitioners, and Raghenth Basant appearing for the respondents.
The review-petitioners pleaded for "mercy" ...