HC rejects real estate firm’s plea for sale deeds of disputed lands
The Supreme Court had in 2022 declared that the land belonged to the state government and the TGIIC
HYDERABAD: Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar of the Telangana High Court rejected the plea of a real estate firm Jana Chaitanya Housing Pvt. Ltd, which sought directions to the registration department to execute the sale deeds submitted by it for three plots in Survey No. 250 of Manikonda Jagir.
There was a title dispute over the land, measuring around 1,654 acres, in Manikonda Jagir between the Waqf Board and the government. The Supreme Court had in 2022 declared that the land belonged to the state government and the TGIIC.
Despite the 2006 errata notification issued by the Waqf Board, claiming the land, the HMDA zonal officer of Serilingampally, vide proceedings dated January 8, 2013, approved regularisation of unapproved layouts/plots of Survey No. 250/part and 251/part, respectively, situated at Manikonda Jagir. It was noted that the Supreme Court had on February 7, 2022, quashed the board’s errata notification (dated 13.03.2006), and held that the land admeasuring 1654 acres 32 guntas vest with the state free from any encumbrance.
Taking a point that their plots had been approved under the land regularization scheme, the real estate firm approached the registration department for executing the sale deeds. The sub-registrar of Serilingampally refused on the grounds that the land was in the prohibited list.
Justice Shravan Kumar was not inclined to give any relief and said that the petitioner being a private party had no right or interest over the subject property. The court also pointed out that the petitioner had not filed any document/sale deed in support of their claim.
