HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. BHASKAR REDDY WRIT PETITION Nos.22483, 25514, 34265, 35955, 43084, 43097 of 2018, 17055 of 2020, 10909, 12562, 12597, 26153 of 2021, 15088 of 2022, 1360 of 2023, 36843 of 2024 and 3006 of 2025

COMMON ORDER

The issue involved in all these writ petitions is intrinsically interconnected and therefore, they are taken up and heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

2. These writ petitions came to be filed questioning the action of the respondent authorities for not issuing the pattadar passbooks under the provisions of the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 2020 (for short “the Act 9 of 2020”) in favour of the petitioners for the lands admeasuring Acs.60.00 guntas each in Sy.Nos.1018/O1; 1018/O2; 1018/O3; 1018/OO/1; 1018/OO/2; 1018/OO/3; 1018/OW/1; 1018/OW/2 and 1018/OW/3, situated at Sujathnagar Village and Mandal, Bhadradri-Kothagudem District.

3. It is stated that the petitioners’ ancestors are Ex-Servicemen and taking into consideration their contribution in the World War-2, the State has assigned the land to an extent of Acs.60.00 guntas each in the aforesaid survey numbers to the Ex-Servicemen. It is further stated that the names of the Ex-Servicemen (grandfathers of the petitioners), were mutated in all the revenue records vide proceedings in Rc.No.C/1610/89, dated 22.12.1989. It is further stated that, even after mutation of their names and recording the entries in the revenue records, when the pattadar passbooks have not been issued, they were constrained to make various representations before the revenue authorities and acting on the said representations, the Tahsildar vide Letter in Rc.No.B/3366/2014, dated 16.09.2015, submitted a report before the Revenue Divisional Officer stating that on verification of the records, the total extent of land in Sy.No.1018 is Acs.180.00 guntas, and out of the same, an extent of Acs.108.00 guntas is in occupation being cultivated by the ST and SC ryots since more than four decades and their names were recorded in the enjoyer column of the pahanies of Sujathnagar village. It is also stated in the said report that from 1990- 91 onwards the names of Mr. Premkunar Jariyeli, Mr. Anil Kumar Jariyeli and Mr. Ashok Kumar Jariyeli are recorded as pattadars in the place of Mr. J.N.Jacob and Mr. Alexander Jacob. It is stated that in the field enquiry, it is revealed that the above said persons were not found to be in possession of the subject land. It is further stated that, aggrieved by the said report, the petitioners have made an application before the Revenue Divisional Officer and the Revenue Divisional Officer vide proceedings in Rc.No.D/1944/ 2018, dated 04.01.2018 directed the Tahsildar to conduct a detailed enquiry and to take necessary action as per the provisions of the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971. It is stated that, aggrieved by the non-

compliance of the said proceedings and also seeking correction of entries in the revenue records, W.P.Nos.9246, 9752 and 10004 of 2016 came to be filed on the file of this Court. This Court, vide common order, dated 17.03.2021, while dismissing the said writ petitions, granted liberty to the petitioners therein to approach the civil Court seeking correction of the entries in the revenue records. It is also observed that the said order does not preclude the unofficial respondents therein from availing all the grounds and defences under the law, if any suit is filed against them by the petitioners therein.

4. It is further stated that, pending institution of the suit, the State has introduced the programme commonly called as the Land Records Updation Programme (LRUP) in the year, 2017. It is their case that to avail the benefits under the said Programme, instead of availing the remedy as directed by this Court in the in the batch of writ petitions vide common order dated 07.03.2021, the petitioners have made representations before the authorities, who have undertake