IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERBAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13262 of 2015 Dated: 10.03.2026 Between Sriramshetty Srinivasa Rao and others.

…PETITIONERS And The State of Telangana.

Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department – ULC, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others.

…RESPONDENTS

ORDER:

This writ petition is filed to declare the action of the respondents in claiming the land of the petitioners admeasuring Ac.1.33 guntas in Sy.No.574 of Alwal village, Malkajgiri Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, as excess vacant land to the holding of a dead declarant in proceedings No.CC.No.G1/13089/76 dated 23.12.2005 basing on G.O.Ms.No.580 Revenue (UC-II) Department dated 04.05.2005 on the basis of fraudulent panchanama with antedate as 27.04.2006, as being illegal, arbitrary, without jurisdiction and contrary to the provisions of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999.

2. The facts of the case, as pleaded by the petitioner, in brief as under:

a) The petitioners have jointly purchased the subject land from Mohd. Sultan Sharief and others represented by GPA holder P. Seetha Ram Reddy and others under registered sale deed dated 02.12.2004. The vendors of the petitioners acquired title to the subject property vide proceedings of the Revenue Divisional Officer in proceedings No.3201/1995 dated 29.12.1995. The vendors of the petitioners were also issued pattadar pass books and title deeds under the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971.

(b) The vendors of the petitioners purchased the subject land from Mohd. Showkat Hussain and others under agreement of sale dated 25.01.1999, which was regularized under the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971. The petitioners applied to respondent No.5 for mutation of their names in the revenue records and for issuance of pattadar passbooks. As the respondent No.5 did not consider the request of the petitioners, they approached the respondent No.4, who passed orders on 14.06.2006 directing the respondent No.5 to record the names of the petitioners as pattadars. Thereafter, the respondent No.5 issued notice dated 20.0.2026 in Form VIII and after inspecting the subject property, issued proceedings dated 22.07.2006 sanctioning mutation in favour of the petitioners.

c) That, while things stood thus, the respondents inspected the subject land in the month of December 2015 and claimed that the land has been declared surplus under the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (for short the ULC Act). Petitioners made enquiry and filed an application dated 19.01.2015 under the Right to Information Act for furnishing copies of the ULC proceedings. The respondent No.2 issued proceedings dated 24.02.2015 through which the petitioners came to know that the respondent No.2 - Special Officer and Competent Authority, ULC, passed order dated 23.12.2005 in C.C.No.G1/13087 to 13092/76, G1/8931 to 8938/76, G1/8920/76, G1/8297, 8928, 8924 and 8926/76.

3. (a) It is submitted that the original owner, namely, Gulam Ahmed, had alienated the agricultural land of Ac.1.33 guntas in Sy.No.574 of Alwal village in favour of the vendors of the petitioners, who, in turn, had sold the same to the petitioners. The orders under Sections 8(1) and 8(4) of the ULC Act were passed behind the back of the petitioners erroneously, even after Late Gulam Ahmed had already transferred the land in favour of the vendors of the petitioners and he was not holder of the land when common order was passed in C.C.No.G1/13087 to 13092/76, G1/8931 to 8938/76, G1/8920/76, G1/8297, 8928, 8924 and 8926/76 under Section 8(4) of the Act. The petitioners also came to know that pursuant to Section 8(4) order, final statement under Section 9(1) was issued and thereafter, notification under Section 10(1) and 10(3) were issued. The petitioners are in possession of the property and were not issued notice under Section 10(5) of the ULC Act. The petitioners had b