The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Attorney General K K Venugopal to submit proposed guidelines to govern allotment of government land to housing societies, to which politicians, bureaucrats, journalists and sometimes judges are also members, across the country. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli said that now the scope of the petition has been expanded, the plea may be listed after the AG submits guidelines, proposed by him, to govern the allotment of land to housing societies nationwide. At the outset, the bench wanted to know as to how it can regulate and ask for a uniform policy on such kind of allotment across the country. What is happening is this that plots are being distributed to politicians, bureaucrats, journalists and sometimes even to judges and all this is done to curry favours for particular entities. Therefore, the apex court decided to have some guidelines so that the governments across the country are bound by them, he said, adding that one chief minister allotted land to the driver. During the course of hearing, Mr C.S.Vaidyanathan, senior counsel (appearing for Telangana) submits that the state is not going to allot the land which is the subject matter of the application to anybody. Recording the statement made by the learned senior counsel, we see no reason to pass any specific interim order.
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