WRIT PETITION No.22032 of 2019: Honourable Sri Justice M.S.Ramachandra Rao
WRIT PETITION No.22032 of 2019: Honourable Sri Justice M.S.Ramachandra Rao
WRIT PETITION No.22032 of 2019: Honourable Sri Justice M.S.Ramachandra Rao
RAMACHANDRA RAO
ORDER:
3. The petitioners, who are six in number, claim that Pilli Balaiah
from one Fazlath Hussain. They contend that they were in possession
and enjoyment of his land since 1962 when there was an agreement of
Balaiah and to have inherited the said land on his death along with
(for short, ‘the Act’) was issued by the 1st respondent in the name of
legal heirs of Pilli Balaiah after they deposited the registration and
7. The Pahani for 2015-16 and 2016-17 showed that they were the
Kukatpally Village.
partition of the above land and allotment of 1/30th share therein; that a
directing that the above property should be divided into six shares,
and one share should be allotted to 1st defendant therein and in that
share, the plaintiffs were to be allotted 1/5th share each, i.e., the
claiming 346 acres filed a claim petition which was dismissed and
was also confirmed by the High Court and later in the Supreme Court;
that the claim of the said entity was also rejected by the High Court in
possession.
confirming the patta rights and also mutation was made of the names
from the date of its purchase; that the pahani for 2015-16 also showed
that they are the legal heirs of Pilli Balaiah and were pattadars and
taking a stand that the subject land had become urban land and had
ceased to be an agricultural land and that the Act itself was therefore
not applicable.
and illegal; that the order passed on 02.04.2012 by the 1st respondent
under Section 5-A had attained finality; that the relevant date for the
12. The counsel for petitioners also relied upon order dt.04.06.2019
Medchal District were not permitted by this Court and a finding was
agricultural land.
Kukatpally Village to the legal heirs of Pilli Balaiah. The said officer
had closed the suo motu Revision after recording that the said land is
patta land, that the Government is not claiming any right in the said
land, and that certificate in Form 13-B had been issued in File
right and title over the land in question in separate proceeding before
appropriate Forum.
Balanagar and Kukatpally Mandal, and that the subject land fell
respondent in the Writ Petition and the Writ Petition need not be
dismissed on the said ground because the said fact had come to light
one Hashim Ali; that O.S.No.219 of 1980 was filed by Mir Fazeelath
Statement was filed therein by Pilli Danaiah and others admitting the
unregistered sale deed dt.04.04.1974 and that the said sale deed is non
est in law. It appears that the Tahsildar, who filed the counter, is
the Act and the suo moto revision proceedings initiated by the Joint
20. Having said so, it is stated that the Joint Collector, Ranga
Reddy District came to know that Pilli Balaiah and others suffered a
Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad and there was a
petitioners for issuance of pattedar pass books and title deeds on the
23. Admittedly, the pahanies for 2015-16 and 2016-17 filed by the
the name of the petitioners. When the Urban Land (Ceiling and
Regulation) Act, 1976 got repealed in March, 2008 by the Urban Land
(Ceiling and Repeal) Act, 1999, and there is a finding recorded by this
land, it is not open to the respondents to take the plea that the land is
agricultural land (for which there is no basis), and seek to contend that
each other.
the said order F1/6360/76 dt.23.04.1982 is not filed. Who was the
taken prior to its repeal under the Urban Land Ceiling and Repeal Act,
1999 in March, 2018 and that the said land is not covered by the
referred to.
27. These facts are not at all relevant, since admittedly petitioners
are not parties to the said Writ Petitions and in his order dt.25.05.2013
that the land is patta land and the Government is not claiming any
right in it. Thus, the respondents are estopped from mentioning the
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above facts or taking a plea that the land falls in the urban
agglomeration.
28. I reject the plea of the respondents that unless all the above Writ
petitioners, who are legal heirs of Pilli Balaiah after collecting the
stamp duty and registration charges; and after the 1st respondent
(which the 3rd respondent was not inclined to interfere in his order in
certificate under Section 5A (4) of the Act declaring the transfer in the
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M.S.RAMACHANDRA RAO, J
Date: 24.01.2020
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