Supreme Court does not have time to hear its own petitioner
Attention to land mafias against Heera Group, ED’s accountability missing
Delhi / Hyderabad (Report: Matiur Rehman Aziz) "Two years is a long time to find evidence. Obviously, in such a case, our sympathies will be with the Heera Group.” These are the words of retired Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul , who heard the Heera Group case in the Supreme Court. While hearing the Heera Group case, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul uttered these words on December 16, 2022, embarrassing the Enforcement Directorate and other agencies, which were published in bold headlines by two of the country’s famous newspapers, the Indian Express and the Dasyasat Daily. Yesterday, on October 26, during the hearing of the Heera Group in the Supreme Court of India, those words of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul were very much remembered, in which he uttered a historic sentence while hearing the Heera Group for two years. In yesterday’s hearing, the Supreme Court completed the hearing of the case in just three minutes after waiting for about 100 days. The Hyderabadi land mafias who were eyeing the Heera Group’s lands were given attention in this hearing, but the Heera Group was completely ignored and the next case was heard without being given a chance to say a word. It is a matter of regret that the Heera Group, which had hoped for justice from the Supreme Court against the arbitrariness and mismanagement of the agencies, was not heard. It has been, while it is as clear as day that in the initial hearings of a case in which the ED and other agencies could not collect even a single shred of evidence before Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, from where will they produce it later? Therefore, when the Heera Group was not heard at all, who will knock on the locked door of the Honorable Supreme Court that "My Lord, you yourself had told the ED to get the auctioned lands registered with the help of the registrar and then recover the CEO of the Heera Group and release him.” Now your Honor should see for yourself whether the ED has completed the registration stage as per the court’s order or not yet, in which a few days or weeks were given, but here a hundred days have passed. The question was worthy of being asked that as per the Supreme Court’s promise, Hera Group CEO Dr. Nowhera Sheikh should have been granted bail by now after hundreds of days, but here the petitioners are Hera Group and Dr. Nowhera Sheikh, and the hearing is in favor of the Hyderabadi land mafia and the agencies are being completely entertained. It should have been that the Honorable Judges would have read their previous order and acted on their own words without any request. In such a situation, should it be said that justice is dying in motherland India or should it be thought that it is still on the path of death.
Will the Hera Group, which has been knocking on the door of the Supreme Court for justice, now have to struggle to make its plea heard? Isn’t it the responsibility of the court to monitor the implementation of court orders and seek responses from the relevant agencies? And if there is no adequate time to hear the parties in a case, review previous orders and find out the status of their implementation, where should the thousands of victims who have approached the court with the hope of justice look? Many such questions have arisen after the hearing on the Hera Group in the Supreme Court of India on October 26, 2026. If the long-awaited hearing in the Hera Group case ended without any clear progress on the petitioner’s position, previous court directions and the responsibilities of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), then this situation certainly demands serious journalistic and legal attention. The main question of the Hera Group is not just the release of a company or its head Dr. Nowhera Sheikh, but the entire legal process that includes important issues such as the interests of investors, the sale of seized properties, their registry, refund of money and the accountability of the relevant agencies.
In light of the questions raised in the Heera Group case, the following steps may be important: Clarification of the current status of the court’s previous orders regarding the registration, sale and related conditions of the properties. An updated report should be sought on the status of the properties, auction, registry, collected money and refund to investors. An opportunity for effective hearing should be given to the relevant applications filed by Heera Group and Dr. Nowhera Sheikh. The application for bail or release of Dr. Nowhera Sheikh and the court orders applicable thereto should be reviewed in accordance with law. Transparent information should be provided regarding the verification of the claims of the affected investors, the procedure for refunding the money and the duration of the proceedings.
Attention to land mafias against Heera Group, ED’s accountability missing
Delhi / Hyderabad (Report: Matiur Rehman Aziz) "Two years is a long time to find evidence. Obviously, in such a case, our sympathies will be with the Heera Group.” These are the words of retired Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul , who heard the Heera Group case in the Supreme Court. While hearing the Heera Group case, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul uttered these words on December 16, 2022, embarrassing the Enforcement Directorate and other agencies, which were published in bold headlines by two of the country’s famous newspapers, the Indian Express and the Dasyasat Daily. Yesterday, on October 26, during the hearing of the Heera Group in the Supreme Court of India, those words of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul were very much remembered, in which he uttered a historic sentence while hearing the Heera Group for two years. In yesterday’s hearing, the Supreme Court completed the hearing of the case in just three minutes after waiting for about 100 days. The Hyderabadi land mafias who were eyeing the Heera Group’s lands were given attention in this hearing, but the Heera Group was completely ignored and the next case was heard without being given a chance to say a word. It is a matter of regret that the Heera Group, which had hoped for justice from the Supreme Court against the arbitrariness and mismanagement of the agencies, was not heard. It has been, while it is as clear as day that in the initial hearings of a case in which the ED and other agencies could not collect even a single shred of evidence before Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, from where will they produce it later? Therefore, when the Heera Group was not heard at all, who will knock on the locked door of the Honorable Supreme Court that "My Lord, you yourself had told the ED to get the auctioned lands registered with the help of the registrar and then recover the CEO of the Heera Group and release him.” Now your Honor should see for yourself whether the ED has completed the registration stage as per the court’s order or not yet, in which a few days or weeks were given, but here a hundred days have passed. The question was worthy of being asked that as per the Supreme Court’s promise, Hera Group CEO Dr. Nowhera Sheikh should have been granted bail by now after hundreds of days, but here the petitioners are Hera Group and Dr. Nowhera Sheikh, and the hearing is in favor of the Hyderabadi land mafia and the agencies are being completely entertained. It should have been that the Honorable Judges would have read their previous order and acted on their own words without any request. In such a situation, should it be said that justice is dying in motherland India or should it be thought that it is still on the path of death.
Will the Hera Group, which has been knocking on the door of the Supreme Court for justice, now have to struggle to make its plea heard? Isn’t it the responsibility of the court to monitor the implementation of court orders and seek responses from the relevant agencies? And if there is no adequate time to hear the parties in a case, review previous orders and find out the status of their implementation, where should the thousands of victims who have approached the court with the hope of justice look? Many such questions have arisen after the hearing on the Hera Group in the Supreme Court of India on October 26, 2026. If the long-awaited hearing in the Hera Group case ended without any clear progress on the petitioner’s position, previous court directions and the responsibilities of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), then this situation certainly demands serious journalistic and legal attention. The main question of the Hera Group is not just the release of a company or its head Dr. Nowhera Sheikh, but the entire legal process that includes important issues such as the interests of investors, the sale of seized properties, their registry, refund of money and the accountability of the relevant agencies.
In light of the questions raised in the Heera Group case, the following steps may be important: Clarification of the current status of the court’s previous orders regarding the registration, sale and related conditions of the properties. An updated report should be sought on the status of the properties, auction, registry, collected money and refund to investors. An opportunity for effective hearing should be given to the relevant applications filed by Heera Group and Dr. Nowhera Sheikh. The application for bail or release of Dr. Nowhera Sheikh and the court orders applicable thereto should be reviewed in accordance with law. Transparent information should be provided regarding the verification of the claims of the affected investors, the procedure for refunding the money and the duration of the proceedings.
