Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court has held that appeal against the issuance of pattadar passbooks /title deeds was not maintainable under under Section 6-A of the AP Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971.
A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice S.V. Bhatt was ruling on a question raised by a single judge with regard to maintainability of the appeal before the revenue divisional officer challenging the issuance of the documents.
The bench said the pattadar passbook is a copy or reflection of entries in the record of rights prepared at one or the other stage under the Act.
The passbook is issued to any person whose name figures in the applicable column in records of rights. It can’t be said that issuing the document adversely affects any person.
The bench noted that remedies with regard to illegal preparation of record of rights or erroneous updating of record of rights were available under the Act.
Environment secy called
Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao ordered the appearance of the Union environment secretary before the court on August 3 to explain the reasons for not responding to its order despite repeated reminders.
The judge was dealing with a petition by IFS officer A. Kishan challenging his suspension by the erstwhile AP government in May 2013 based on certain allegations.
The officer moved the court as the Centre had not confirmed his suspension even after two years.
PIL against encounter SIT
A PIL has been moved before the Hyderabad HC seeking to abolish the Special Investigation Team constituted by the AP government to probe the April 7 Seshachalam encounter in which 20 woodcutters from Tamil Nadu were killed.
Mr Vasireddy Srikrishna of Chittoor moved the plea questioning the fairness and propriety of the SIT officers.
He asked for a direction to suspend all members of the Red Sanders anti-Smuggling Task Force team involved in the encounter.
