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bIN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD

HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY WRIT PETITION No.40283 OF 2025

DATE OF ORDER: 31.03.2026 Between:

Mudavath Lachya and 5 others.

…Petitioners AND

The Government of Telangana, represented by its Principal Secretary,

Agriculture Marketing and Cooperation Department, Secretariat,

Hyderabad and 4 others.

…Respondents ORDER : (ORAL)

This writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to declare the action of

the respondents, more particularly respondent Nos.2 to 5 in withholding the payment of amount to the petitioner under Rythu Bandhu scheme as illegal and

arbitrary and unconstitutional.

2. Heard Smt. Dhana Lakshmi Tallapalem, learned counsel for the petitioner; Mr. L.Ravinder, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue,

appearing for the respondent Nos.2 to 4; and perused the material on record.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are the absolute owners and possessors of land admeasuring Ac.2.06 guntas in Survey No.514, Ac.2.03 guntas in Survey No.515, Ac.2.00 guntas in Survey No.516, Ac.2.00 guntas in Survey No.517, Ac.2.06 guntas in Survey No.520, and Ac.2.02

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guntas in Survey No.514, all situated at Naredugommu Village, Naredugommu Mandal, Nalgonda District. It is further submitted that a suit for partition in O.S. No.86 of 2018 is pending on the file of the learned Senior Civil Judge, Nalgonda, filed by one Nenavath Balu and others against Nenavath Gopya and others. The petitioners, being subsequent purchasers of the subject property from the defendants in the said suit, are not parties. The Trial Court, by order dated 24.04.2018, directed the parties to maintain status quo. However, the respondents, relying solely on the said interim order, have stopped the amounts payable to the petitioners under the Rythu Bandhu scheme in respect of the subject lands. It is contended that the petitioners have been issued Pattadar

Passbooks in respect of the subject lands, which are filed as Ex.P5.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners further draws the attention of this Court to the order passed by this Court in W.P. No.32432 of 2022, dated 17.08.2022, wherein the writ petition was allowed and the respondents were directed to release the amounts payable to the petitioner under the Rythu Bandhu Scheme in respect of the Kharif Season, 2022. This Court, while allowing the writ petition, observed that the mere pendency of a civil suit and any interim orders passed therein shall not, in any manner, affect the rights of the parties in their respective claims. It is further submitted that the status quo order passed by the Trial Court was in an application seeking an injunction restraining alienation of the property. There is no specific direction in the said order restraining the

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respondent authorities from disbursing the Rythu Bandhu benefits. Therefore, it is contended that such a status quo order cannot be construed as a bar for

payment of amounts under the Rythu Bandhu Scheme to the petitioners.

5. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue submitted that it is only because of the interim order passed in I.A. No.537 of 2018 in O.S. No.86 of 2018 pending on the file of learned Senior Civil Judge at Nalgonda, the Rythu

Bandhu amount payable to the petitioners was stopped.

6. The status quo order dated 25.04.2018 in I.A. No.537 of 2018 is stated to have been passed in O.S. No.86 of 2018 filed for temporary injunction not to alienate the suit properties. Based on such order Rythu Bandu (Rythu Barosa)

benefits of the petitioners cannot be stopped.

7. In view of the above, this Writ Petition is allowed, the respondent Nos.2 to 5 are directed to release the amounts payable to the petitioner under the Rythu Bandhu Scheme and to continue to pay the same in respect of Pattadar Passbook Nos.T28230030963, T28230031106, T28230031074, T28230031123,

T28230030907, and T28230030692. There shall be no order as to costs.

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