hyderabad in a major relief to dismissed health minister eatala rajender the telangana high court on tuesday directed the state government not to initiate any action based on the report of medak district collector on the alleged land grabbing by jamuna hatcheries and asked the government to follow the due process of lawcoming down heavily on the collector and his team of officials for entering the private property of the former ministers family justice t vinod kumar refused to accept the report of the collector he faulted the action of the collector for entering the premises in the name of identifying the assigned land without issuing any notice terming the collectors action as a violation of fundamental rights the judge said even encroachers have to be notified when you government intend to act on themjustice kumar took up a house motion and heard an urgent petition filed by jamuna hatcheries run by eatalas wife jamuna and son nithin reddy who urged the court to restrain the government from taking any coercive action against them the judge gave four weeks to the government file a counter and asked it not to rely on the collectors report eatala was removed from the state cabinet two days ago and an official inquiry was ordered into allegations of land grabbing by himappearing for the petitioners senior counsel d prakash reddy said the action of the authorities was unilateral and highhanded and even confirmed them as encroachers of government land within hours of launching a probeciting the collector the judge also rejected the government contention that this was only a preliminary probe the collector mentioned in his report that he had conducted a detailed field inspection can a detailed field inspection take place without notifying the affected parties the judge wondered he further asked assuming for a moment the poultry was set up on an assigned land what were the authorities doing when sheds were erected when power connection was given and when poultry was set up and run stressing that the collector had totally ignored the principles of natural justice the judge directed the government to initiate the process by following the law the judge gave an interim direction to the government not to interfere and not to resort to any coercive action based on the collectors report he posted the case to july 6 for further heding prakash reddy said a team comprising 200 officials from revenue police and survey departments barged into jamuna hatcheries unit at achampet and hakimpet villages in medak district without issuing a notice and without showing any regard towards the biosensitive zone in which poultry is bred the petitioners also sought directions from the court restraining the authorities from entering the premises of their poultry and interfering in their business and possession of their land