HC orders probe against court orders procured dubiously

HYDERABAD: Finding something fishy in obtaining court orders in land cases and that too without intimating the other party, the Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the High Court Registry (judicial) to report full details about a case related to a land dispute that pertains to 93 acres in survey numbers 127, 140, 156 and others at Kuntloor village in Hayathnagar mandal of Ranga Reddy district. The title dispute between one Singireddy Laxmi and two others vs Billa Srinivas and 26 others is pending for over a decade before the district court. Some parties tried to alienate the said land, even after the court had issued injunction orders.

When Lakshmi and others approached the High Court, a single judge in June 2021, restrained the sub-registrar of Hayathnagar from entertaining any registrations over this land. Though a kin approached the High Court seeking vacation of the restraint order, the single judge refused to vacate it. They filed writ appeals against this, which were dismissed.

Recently, when authorities registered some land transactions on the said land, Lakshmi and others approached the division bench headed by Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, saying that the sub-registrar was acting against the orders of the court. But the parties who are making the registrations produced another order issued by a single judge that allowed them to go ahead with the registrations.

This mystery order confounded the division bench, which after going through the High Court website concluded that this ‘mysterious’ order was not uploaded. The bench stayed this order and directed the sub-registrar not to entertain any registrations over this land until further orders. It also directed the HC registrar to conduct a probe into the episode and furnish its report. It warned of a police probe against anyone not heeding to the court order.

Meanwhile, Chief Justice Bhuyan observed that he had found many discrepancies in transaction of CS 9 and CS 14 lands (plaints over large tract of Paigah lands by the legal heirs) and said that the court opined a CBI and ED probe into the dubious deals done in the name of CS land batch cases.