HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE JUSTICE MOUSHUMI BHATTACHARYA AND THE HON’BLE JUSTICE GADI PRAVEEN KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.26689 OF 2025 DATE:13.02.2026 Between Sri Banoth Babu Rao S/o Krishna Murthy ...Petitioner And The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Law Department, Dr. B R Amebedkar Telangana State Secretariat, Hyderabad and Five Others.

…Respondents Mr. Ponampelli Ravi, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner.

Mr. D. Surender Kumar, learned counsel appearing for the respondent No.1.

Mr. M V Hanumantha Rao, learned counsel appearing for the respondent Nos.3 to

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ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya

1. The Writ Petition has been filed against an Award dated 01.07.2024 passed by the Lok Adalat Bench at Khammam in LAC No. 614 of 2024 filed by the respondent Nos.3 to 5 herein.

2. The LAC was filed by the respondent Nos.3 to 5 against the petitioner and the respondent No.6 for partition and separate possession.

3. The Court is informed that the petitioner is the father of the respondent Nos.3, 4, and 5. The respondent Nos.3, 4, and 5 are minors represented by their mother and natural guardian.

4. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner seeks a direction on the respondent No.2 for the rectification/amendment of the impugned Lok Adalat Award to record:

(i) that Item No.B property shall remain with the petitioner (respondent No.1 before the Lok Adalat); and (ii) that Item No.C property shall be allotted to the minors through their mother/guardian.

5. Counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that there are inter se disputes between the family members which should be settled through other means of alternative dispute resolution and by way of a Compromise before the Lok Adalat.

6. Learned counsel appearing for the respondent Nos.3 to 5 (three minor children represented by their mother) submits that the petitioner was a party to the Compromise and willingly signed the Terms of the Compromise. Hence, the petitioner cannot now resile from the Compromise and seek modification/amendment of the Award.

7. We have perused the impugned Award dated 01.07.2024 incorporating the Terms of the Compromise between the parties relating to partition of the schedule properties, which records that all the parties had affixed their signatures as evidence of their consent to the Terms of the Award and that the Terms of the Compromise had been explained in Telugu to the parties and admitted by them.

8. The Terms of the Compromise recorded in the Award include, inter alia, that the petitioner (respondent No.1 before the Lok Adalat) agreed to allot Item Nos.A and B of the Suit schedule properties to the respondent Nos.3 to 5 (minor children) jointly and in equal shares with absolute rights towards the full and final satisfaction of the minor children through their mother and that the minor children through their mother agreed to receive the said properties voluntarily and without any pressure. The Award also records that the respondent No.1 delivered vacant possession of Item Nos.A and B of the Suit schedule properties to the minor children through their mother.

9. The Award further records that the petitioner/respondent No.1 before the Lok Adalat, agreed to execute the necessary registered documents in favour of the minor children in respect of Item Nos.A and B of the Suit schedule properties and that the respondent Nos.3 to 5/petitioners before the Lok Adalat, would have to bear the registration expenses.

10. The Award additionally records that the mother of the minor children, on their behalf, had relinquished their rights over the C schedule property and the same was allotted to the petitioner (respondent No.1 before the Lok Adalat).

11. Clause 6 of the Award records that there was no collusion or fraud between the parties in filing the Pre-Litigation Case (PLC).

12. The prayer in the Writ Petition seeks the rectification/amendment of the Award in relation to Item Nos.B and C properties. The