HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY WRIT PETITION No.10391 of 2025

ORDER:

This Writ Petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, is filed seeking the following relief:

“….to pass order or orders one in the nature of WRIT OF MANDAMUS declaring the action of the Respondents Not to entertain Conversion of Agriculture land to non-Agriculture land and not to alienate the land in respect of land in Sy.No.325, extent Ac.13.00 gts, Sy.No.389, extent Ac.02.00 gts, total extent Ac.15.00 gts situated at Talakondapally Village and Mandal as the matter sub-judiced before the civil court vide OS No.67 of 2022 on the file of the Honourable Senior Civil Judge Ranga Reddy District at Shadnagar and a Civil Miscelleaneous Appeal vide CMA No.23 of 2024 is also pending before the XVI Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District by interfering into the petitioner above said land without following due process of law and declare the action of the respondents as illegal against the law arbitrary against the principals of natural justice and in violation of Article 300-A of the Constitution of India.…”

2. Considered the submissions of Sri Suresh Shiv Sagar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri L. Ravinder, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for respondent Nos.1 to 4.

3. It is stated that the petitioner is the owner and possessor of land admeasuring Ac.13.00 guntas in Sy.No.325 and Ac.2.00 guntas in Sy.No.389, situated at Talakondapally Village and Mandal. It is further stated that when disputes arose in respect of the subject property, the petitioner has instituted a suit in O.S.No.67 of 2022 on the file of the Court of the learned Senior Civil Judge at Shadnagar, along with I.A.No.162 of 2022 against respondent Nos.5 to 7 and the said application was dismissed vide order dated 09.09.2024 in I.A.No.162 of 2022 in O.S.No.67 of 2022; and aggrieved by the said same, the petitioner has filed CMA No.23 of 2024 on the file of the XVI Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District and the same is pending for adjudication. The grievance of the petitioner is that being aware of the pendency of the said cases, respondent Nos.5 to 7 have submitted an application before the respondent authorities for conversion of the said property from agriculture purpose to non-agriculture purpose under the provisions of the Telangana Agricultural Land (Conversion for Non-agricultural Purposes) Act, 2006, (for short ‘Act, 2006’), which constrained him to submit a representation before the respondent authorities not to entertain the application submitted by respondent Nos.5 to 7 for conversion of the said property.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that if the respondent authorities convert the subject property from agriculture to non-agriculture purpose, the purpose of institution of the suit by the petitioner would be defeated and therefore, when the suit for declaration is pending for adjudication, the respondent authorities are not entitled to entertain the application for conversion.

5. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for respondent Nos.1 to 4 submitted that since the petitioner has submitted a representation before the respondent authorities not to entertain the application submitted by respondent Nos.5 to 7, before considering their application for conversion of the subject lands into non-agriculture purpose, the revenue authorities are competent to examine the said representation submitted by the petitioner.

6. In view of the above, this Court is of the opinion that ends of justice would be met, if respondent No.4 is directed to consider the representation submitted by the petitioner before entertaining the application submitted by respondent Nos.5 to 7 for conversion of the subject lands into non-agriculture purpose, after considering the objections of the petitioner and pass a reasoned order and communicate the same to the petitioner.

7. With the above observations, this writ petition is