THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN

WRIT PETITION No.21467 of 2025

ORDER

Heard Sri K.Sravan Kumar Reddy, learned counsel for

the petitioner and Sri H.Somaiah Ezra Shastri, lerned Assistant Government Pleader for Assignment, for respondent

Nos.1 to 4.

2. The petitioner is claiming that he has purchased land admeasuring Ac.3-10 guntas in Sy.No.62/19 situated at Madhapur Village, Kandukur Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, on the strength of a registered sale deed bearing document No.2338/1987, dated 26.11.1987 executed by respondent Nos.6 and 7. Their names were also mentioned in possessory column in pahanies. According to the petitioner, the subject land is assigned land. Vide G.O.Ms.No.77, Law (F) Department, dated 06.05.2008, the Government made amendment to the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Amendment Act, 2008. The Government brought amendment to Section 4 of the Telangana Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act,

1977. The said amendment is as follows:

“(b) [(i) reassign the said resumed land, other than those lands /areas as may be notified by the Government from time to time in public interest and for public purpose, to the transferee who purchased the land in good faith and for valuable consideration on or before [31^st December, 2017] [Clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 4 substituted by Act No.21 of 2008], subject to the condition that he/she is landless poor person, and is in occupation of the land by using the said for agriculture or as house site, as on the date of taking possession by eviction:

Provided that the reassignment in case of transferee shall be limited to only such an extent that the total holding of the reassignee including any other land held by him/her does not exceed 5.00 Acres dry land or 2 Acres wet land.

Provided further that where the transferee who has purchased the land and got reassignment of it, or his legal heir, transfers the reassigned land, the land shall be resumed for assignment to the other eligible landless poor.”

Therefore, the petitioner has submitted a representation dated 11.12.2023 to the 2^nd respondent with a request to correct the entries in the revenue record and to mutate his name and issue new pattadar passbook. Despite receiving and acknowledging the same, the 2nd respondent did not consider the same. Aggrieved by said inaction, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition.

3. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Assignment, on instructions, would submit that the 2^nd respondent will consider and dispose of the representation dated 11.12.2023 submitted by the petitioner strictly in accordance with the law by putting the petitioner and respondent Nos.6 and 7 on notice and affording them an opportunity. In the light of the same, notice to respondent Nos.6 and 7 is dispensed with.

4. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the 2^nd respondent to consider the representation dated 11.12.2023 submitted by the petitioner and pass orders in accordance with law by putting the petitioner and respondent Nos.6 and 7 and all interested parties on notice and affording them with an opportunity. If 2^nd respondent is not inclined to accept the request made by the petitioner, he shall pass an order specifying the reasons. However, he shall complete the said exercise within three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed.

__________________ K. LAKSHMAN, J

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