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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA

AT HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL

WRIT PETITION No.40334 2025

Dated: 31.12.2025

Between:

Sri MB Sanjeev Kumar and another.

… Petitioners

And

The State of Telangana,

Represented by its Principal Secretary and eight others

… Respondents

ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of

Constitution of India, seeking the following relief/s:-

“… to issue a writ, order or direction more

particularly one in the nature of Writ of

Mandamus, directing the respondent authorities

to conduct the survey and fix the boundaries by

erecting the boundary stone over the land in

Sy.No.490A & 493 A5, adm.Ac.3.80 gts, & adm.

Ac.3.250 respectively situated at Undyala Village,

Chinna Chintha Kunta Mandal, Mahabubnagar

District in pursuance of the F-Line Application

vide Application No.DER022401119253 dated

16.12.2024 in accordance with law in the interest

of justice and consequently consider the said F-

Line Application and may pass …”

2. Heard Mr.S.M.Saifullah, learned counsel for the

petitioners and Mr.L.Ravinder, learned Assistant

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Government Pleader for Revenue, appearing for

respondents.

3. When the matter is taken up for consideration, learned

counsel for the petitioners seeks a direction to the

respondent-authorities to act upon the F-line application

No.DER022401119253 dated 16.12.2024 submitted by the

petitioners to conduct the survey and fix the boundaries by

erecting the boundary stone over the land admeasuring

Ac.3.80 gts and Ac.3.250 in Sy.Nos.490A and 493 A5

respectively situated at Undyala Village, Chinna Chintha

Kunta Mandal, Mahabubnagar District.

4. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue

contends that the respondent authorities will consider the

aforesaid F-Line application submitted by the petitioners by

following due procedure laid down under law and conduct

survey and erect the subject land by fixing boundaries.

5. It is settled law that the Survey Department has the

authority to conduct survey and demarcate lands in

accordance with the provisions of the Telangana Land

Revenue Act, 1317 Fasli (Act No. VIII of 1317 Fasli), the

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Telangana Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923, and the Rules

framed thereunder. The Government has issued various

circulars specifying the conditions for conducting surveys,

particularly F-Line (field measurement) surveys. Individuals

requesting such surveys are required to submit specific

documents, and if the conditions stipulated in the circulars

are fulfilled, the survey and boundary fixation may be

conducted. The Commissioner, Survey, Settlements and Land

Records, exercising powers under the Telangana Survey and

Boundaries Act, 1923, issued relevant circulars from time to

time vide Rc.No.N1/6543/99, dated 25.07.2001,

Rc.No.N1/1408/07, dated 13.07.2007, and Rc.No.N2/1741/

2010, dated 18.05.2010 stipulating the conditions for

conducting survey of private lands and as per the said

circulars, if the petitioner fulfils all the conditions of the said

circular, it is an obligation on the part of the respondents to

conduct survey within the time specified in the said circulars.

6. In view of the aforesaid discussion, this Court deems it

appropriate to dispose of this Writ Petition directing

respondents-authorities to examine the petitioner’s F-Line

application vide No.DER022401119253, dated 16.12.2024, in

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accordance with the provisions of the Telangana Survey and

Boundaries Act, 1923 and also in terms of the circular

instructions issued by the Commissioner, Survey, Settlements

and Land Records for conducting survey on field

measurement applications (F-Line applications), from time to

time, as expeditiously as possible, by putting the interested

parties on notice and affording them sufficient opportunity of

hearing.

7. With the above direction, this Writ Petition is disposed

of. There shall be no order as to costs.

As a sequel, the miscellaneous petitions pending, if

any, shall stand closed.

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JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL

31.12.2025

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