IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL WRIT PETITION No.36274 of 2025 DATE OF ORDER: 28.11.2025 Between:

P.Andalamma and another ...Petitioners AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and three others ...Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL WRIT PETITION No.36274 of 2025

ORDER:

Aggrieved by the action of respondent No.4 in not conducting enquiry and not making corrections nor issuing succession certificate and patta passbook in spite of online application submitted by petitioner No.1 vide application No.2500088814 dated 29.07.2025 & 2500088811 dated 29.07.2025 in place of petitioners’ mother late Lingamma, who was owner of the property in Survey No.467 admeasuring Ac.0-29 guntas situated at Mucherla Village, Kandukur Mandal, Rangareddy District, the present writ petition is filed. A consequential prayer is sought to direct respondent No.4 to issue succession certificate and patta passbook in favor of the petitioners in place of petitioners’ mother in respect of the subject property.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. L.Ravinder, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for respondent Nos.1 to 4.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioners are the successors to their deceased mother. It is further submitted that the petitioners are the daughters of one Veeraiah alias Veera Reddy. After the death of their father, the property in the name of their father i.e. Ac.8-06 guntas situated at Mucherla Village, Kandukur Mandal, Rangareddy District, has been devolved upon the brothers of the petitioners and their mother. Three shares were equally distributed among them to an extent of Ac.2-29 guntas each. It is further submitted that the succession has been flown upon the brothers of the petitioners and their mother through succession proceedings vide No.3076/1988, dated 16.11.1988. It is further submitted that the petitioners being the successors of their late mother, the petitioner No.1 had made the aforesaid applications in e-Seva on 29.07.2025 to official respondent No.4 along with relevant documents for issuance of succession patta and patta passbook in respect of the property, which is in favor of their deceased mother. But till date, no action has been taken by the official respondent No.4 upon the said applications. Aggrieved by the inaction, the petitioners are constrained to file this writ petition seeking appropriate directions. 4. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue submitted that admittedly the petitioners are claiming the property through their deceased mother. But no document pertaining to their mother has been filed in this writ petition. Unless it is demonstrated through a patta that the mother of the petitioners is holding the patta passbook, the case of the petitioners for grant of succession cannot be considered. It is further submitted that the petitioners ought to have filed an application under Rule 7(2) of the Bhu Bharati Act, 2025. Upon filing such application, the same would be examined and appropriate orders would be passed in accordance with law. In the absence of filing such application, the petitioners by filing an application and approaching this Court seeking a direction to the respondents for grant of succession is not proper and hence seeks to pass appropriate directions.

5. This Court having heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, deems it appropriate to grant liberty to the petitioner No.1 to file an application under Rule 7(2) of the Bhu Bharati Act, 2025. Upon filing the same, needless to mention that the official respondent No.4 shall examine the same and pass appropriate orders strictly in accordance with law and communicate the same to the petitioners herein as per the time limit prescribed under the said Rule of the Bhu Bharati Act, 20