ORDER :

1. Heard Mr. Ashok Reddy Kanathala, learned counsel for the petitioner in W.P.Nos.39609, 45906 and 46008 of 2022, Mr. Prabhakar Sripada, learned Senior Counsel representing Mr. Setty Ravi Teja, learned counsel for the petitioner in W.P. No.10150 of 2023 and Mr. Harender Pershad, Special Government Pleader representing learned Advocate General appearing on behalf of the respondents.

2. All the aforesaid writ petitions are filed seeking to declare the action of the Tahsildar in not providing certified copies of registered sale deeds/succession proceedings, partition deeds executed through Dharani Portal in respect of agricultural lands and also not providing certified copies of Pahanies and Chesala etc., as illegal and for a consequential direction to the Revenue Authorities to provide the aforesaid documents.

3. The lis involved in all the aforesaid writ petitions is same and, therefore, all the said writ petitions are heard together and are being disposed of by way of this common order.

4. Before discussing the lis involved in the present writ petitions, it is relevant to note that the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 2020 (hereinafter referred to as ‘ROR Act, 2020’) was enacted replacing the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as ‘ROR Act, 1971’) with the following objects and purpose:

“At present the land owners were insisted for production of Pattadar Pass Books and Title deeds for transactions related to land and also to secure loans by any Credit agency under section 6-B and section 6-C of Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971. Several instances came to the notice of the Government that the farmers are experiencing difficulties getting mutation of their lands after transfer and obtaining agricultural loans from the lending agencyby producing the Pass Book and Title deed physically. Since all the land related data is Computerized and maintained in Dharani Portal, Government have decided to bring up new "Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 2020 in the place of existing one with the following objectives:

(i) maintenance of the Record of Rights in electronic form in the Telangana Land Records Management System (TLRMS) and to validate the electronically maintained revenue records in centralized storage devices and being executed through portals such as TLRMS and MeeSeva etc.

(ii) combining Title Deed and Pass Book as Title Deed cum Pass Book, to enable the land holders/owners to obtain electronic Pattadar Pass Book cum Title deed.

(iii) reducing the need to produce the Pass Books by the user agency.

(iv) to ensure the bankers/credit agency to grant loans based on the revenue records maintained electronically in centralized storage device through Data Base such as Telangana Land Records Management System (TLRMS) etc., without insisting physical production of any type of Revenue records from the farmers.

(v) automatic acquisition of rights immediately after transfer of property.

(vi) this will enable the goals of ease of doing business and greater transparency and accountability in the department.

(vii) toprotect the lands belonging to the State Government or Central Government.

(viii) to increase transparency in Revenue administration

(ix) to evolve good practices to end corruption in revenue administration.

(x) to provide accountable and responsive revenue administration as part of smart and good governance.

(xi) to ensure hassle free revenue administration in the 'lay' public interest.”

5. It is clear that the ROR Act, 2020 was enacted with the salutary object of digitizing the maintenance of revenue records and to obviate the difficulties faced by the citizens in getting lands mutated in their names. To achieve the said object, an online platform – cum – repository of land related information by the name Dharani Portal was created. The said Dharani Portal is supposed to be the one-stop center to record informati