The Telangana High Court Wednesday granted a three-week extension to the Centre as well as the state government to file their additional affidavit and counter affidavit, respectively, with respect to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition challenging the allotment of 2,900 acres of reserve forest land in the Vikarabad district for a Navy radar station.

The division bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin posted the matter for hearing on November 13.

The PIL, filed by a society named ‘Damagundum Forest Protection JAC-Save Damagundam’ raised severe concerns regarding the environmental impact, compensatory afforestation, and the potential effects of low-frequency radiation from the Very Low Frequency (VLF) radar project in the 2900 acres of land allotted by

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