HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court directed revenue authorities in Shamshabad mandal to decide the validity of three acres land allotments to ex-servicemen by the tahsildar in Sy No. 220/13 situated at Peddashapur, Shamshabad mandal, without obtaining permission from the competent authority.
Justice J. Sreenivas Rao was dealing with a petition filed by an ex-serviceman Shyam Sunder Rao, who claimed the land by saying that it was assigned to him under the ex-serviceman quota on his application to the MRO in 1981.
He challenged the interference of the government in the said land, which was claiming as government land. Further it was brought to the notice of the court that the land was in 1977 allotted to another person. Revenue authorities resumed the land allotted to the ex-serviceman, who had sold a portion of said land to third parties.
The government argument was that the then tahsildar issued laoni patta to the ex-serviceman without obtaining approval from the competent authority and the tahsildar is not having authority or jurisdiction to cancel the assignment patta issued in favour of original assignee and without submitting proposals for cancellation of the assignment certificate.
There was no permission from competent authority. He is not having powers or authority to assign the very same subject property in favor of ex-service man, he said.
However, the court directed revenue authorities to pass appropriate orders, by giving reasons, in accordance with law, after giving notice and opportunity to all the parties concerned, including personal hearing within a period of two months.
