Hyderabad High Court chides revenue dept over claim ON private land

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday expressed bewilderment at the title claim made by revenue authorities of Hyderabad district over a piece of private land merely on the basis of an entry in town survey land records indicating it as ‘G’.

A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice K. Vijaya Lakshmi was dealing with an appeal by the state government against setting aside the notice issued to one Kamal Kishore Agarwal of Agapura to vacate lands measuring 558.5 sq. yards and 870 sq. yards.

The ACJ said, “Tomorrow you vacate me from my house if someone makes an entry in TSL records as ‘G’, and I have to roam around the courts to prove the title of my land.”

Making it clear that if the authorities had evidence to prove that it was government land, they would have to move the civil court, or else the order of the single judge would come into force.

The authorities in 2011 issued the notices to Mr Agarwal terming him as an encroacher and asked him to vacate as the records showed that it was government land. When he moved the High Court, a single judge set aside the notice stating that the government could not claim title on the land merely on the basis of the TSL record entry and without having valid evidence.