Admission deed woes hit Secunderabad Cantonment Board residents

Hyderabad: Residents staying in civil areas and bungalows in various wards, including Bollarum, Bowenpally etc are facing problems in regards to the mutation of their properties. They are being asked to give admission deed and also provide link documents from the period 1956 GLR (General Lands Register) to get anything  done on their lands.  In the admission deed, the individual has to put in writing and sign that the land ownership was with the Union government and he or she is only seeking transfer of building rights. 

According to M.Venu, from a bungalow owner’s family, linking admission deed to property mutation process and its forceful insistence is not acceptable. He said that the admission deed has no legal binding because courts in a few states have not agreed to consider it as a legal document to claim land ownership. “Even the Supreme Court ordered to this effect in 1984, but the Cantonments still continue to demand it,”  property owners said. 

According to the officials, residents have to give the admission deed and link documents from 1956 GLR period onwards to get mutations done. Otherwise, their names will not be entered in the GLR records and also they cannot be given building permissions. G.S.Manoj, a resident from Bollarum, said that several property owners had vexed the admission deed condition.  “How can they be made to write that the property that they bought from another individual by paying hard earned money does not belong to them but the defence?” he asked.

Meanwhile, obtaining link documents is also proving to be a tough ask. This is 2018 and if any resident approaches the SCB for mutation in the GLR records, he is being asked to provide link documents from as far as 1956. If there is a break in this link, the individual’s mutation request is being rejected.

  This prompted elected members from various wards to request SCB officials to be considerate and accept applications that have at least three continuous link documents.   The members had commented in the past that the applicants approached the Board for mutations so that they can later apply for construction or repair works in buildings that are in dilapidated condition, but they are being made to suffer under the pretext of rules which is unfair.