2026 Supreme(Online)(Tel) 18068
IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDEABAD
HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY
WRIT PETITION No.43440 of 2022
DATE :08.06.2026
Between
Amanaganti Venkat Reddy
…Petitioner
AND
The State of Telangana,
Rep. by its Principal Secretary,
Stamps and Registration
and others.
…Respondents
ORDER:
This writ petition is filed to issue a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of respondents in notifying the petitioner’s lands, admeasuring Ac.1.05 gts in Sy.No.121/A, Ac.2.05 gts in Sy.No.122 and Acs.4.27 gts in Sy.No.123/A situated at Thummaloor Village, Maheshwaram Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, in prohibitory list in Dharani Web Portal based on notification published in A.P. Gazette No.7-A dated 16.02.1989 at Serial No.4074 registered as wakf lands, as illegal and arbitrary and for consequential relief.
2. Heard Sri Katika Ravinder Reddy, learned Counsel appearing for the petitioners, Sri Farhan Azam Khan, learned Standing Counsel for Wakf Board and learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue.
3. Learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that in similar facts and circumstances, a learned Single Judge of the erstwhile High Court of Andhra Pradesh, vide order dated 22.09.2016 in WP.No.33133/2014, set aside the Gazette Notification, dated 22.09.2016 holding that the survey conducted under Section 4(3) of the Wakf Act, 1957, is not saved under Section 112 of the Wakf Act 1995. He further submitted that aggrieved by the said order, the Wakf Board preferred appeal vide WA.No.1432 of 2016, wherein a Division Bench of this Court vide Judgment dated 04.12.2023 confirmed the order of learned Single Judge in WP.No.33133/2014 to the extent of setting aside the notification dated 15.11.2001 issued with regard to the subject property therein. However, the Division Bench set aside the findings recorded by the learned Single Judge that survey conducted under Section 4(3) of the Wakf Act, 1954 is not saved under Section 112 of the Wakf Act, 1995.
4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner further submitted that the present writ petition may be disposed of in terms of the common order passed by the Division Bench of this Court in WA.No.1432 of 2016, WP.No.23242/2008 and WP.No.19205/2019 dated 04.12.2023.
5. Learned Standing Counsel for Wakf Board did not dispute the aforesaid submissions of learned Counsel for the petitioner.
6. Having regard to the submissions made by learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned standing Counsel for Wakf Board, the writ petition is disposed of in terms of common order dated 04.12.2023 passed in WA.No.1432 of 2016, WP.Nos.23242/2008 and 19205/2019 and the Andhra Pradesh Gazette Notification No.6 dated.09.02.1989 at Serial No.2151, insofar as it pertains to the subject property is quashed. There shall be no order as to costs.
Miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed.