ORDER :

1. Both these writ petitions are filed seeking the following relief :

“Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ, Order or Orders, Director or Directions to declare the proceedings of 3rd respondent in endorsement dated 08.12.2021 whereby he rejected individual applications filed by the petitioners seeking deletion of their respective lands situated in Sy.No.191 of Kollur Village and Sy.No.30 of Osman Nagar Village, Ramachandrapuram Mandal, Sangareddy District in the prohibited list in the Dharani Portal despite the judgment of the Hon’ble Division Bench in W.P.No.15041 of 2019 dated 07.04.2021 declaring that those lands cannot be continued in the prohibited list, as arbitrary, illegal and unsustainable and to set side the same and issue a consequential direction to the Respondent to delete the same from the prohibited list in the Dharani Portal and to direct the 5th respondent to receive, register and release documents presented by the petitioners in respect of their lands situated in Sy.No.191 of Kollur Village, and Sy.No.30 of Osman Nagar Village, Ramachandrapuram Mandal, Sangareddy District and pass such other order or orders as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case.”

2. The facts in WP.No.34217 of 2021 are set out in brief for the sake of convenience and in order to avoid repetition.

2.1. That the lands in Sy.No.191 of Kollur Village and Sy.No.30 of Osman Nagar Village originally belonged to the Government and they were assigned in favour of ex-servicemen. The ex-servicemen were entitled to sell the lands after ten years without any restriction as regards alienation. Accordingly, the original assignees sold the said lands to different persons under registered sale deeds and thereafter, the same were sold in some more sale transactions. The petitioners are now intending to sell/develop their lands. However, the registration of the documents is not being accepted by the respondent No.5 on the ground that the lands are in the prohibited list. The petitioners verified the status of the land in the Dharani Portal and came to know that the lands in Sy.No.191 of Kollur Village and Sy.No.30 of Osman Nagar Village are shown in the prohibited list. The petitioners applied for mutation, the lands were mutated in the names of the petitioners and they were issued e-passbooks. The petitioners have been receiving Rythubandhu benefit form the Government. The e-passbook and the pahanies show the land is patta land.

2.2. It is stated that the very same issue has fallen for consideration before a Division Bench of this Court in WP.No.15041 of 2019 and order dated 07.04.2021 was passed holding that the lands in Sy.No.191 of Kollur Village and Sy.No.30 of Osman Nagar Village cannot be continued in the prohibited list as the alienations were made by the ex-servicemen ten (10) years after the dates of assignment. Accordingly, a direction was issued to the respondents Nos.4 to 6 therein, which include the respondent No.5 herein, to register the conveyance deeds/sale deeds executed in respect of the lands in the above mentioned survey numbers. The Special Leave Petition No.7227 of 2021 filed against the said judgment before the Supreme Court was dismissed by order dated 30.06.2021. Subsequently, a learned Single Judge of this Court allowed WP.No.25333 of 2019 on 16.07.2021 following the order of the Division Bench in WP.No.15041 of 2019 dated 07.04.2021.

2.3. In view of the above, the petitioner, being similarly situated, approached this Court in WP.No.22677 of 2021 seeking to declare the action of the respondents in including the lands of the petitioners in the prohibited list in the Dharani Portal as illegal. The writ petition was disposed of by order dated 21.09.2021 with a direction to the petitioners to submit a representation to the respondent No.3 and direct