Telangana High Court on Friday sought to know from the State government if it was willing to constitute a Commission of Enquiry to probe into the allegations of illegal mutation and alienation of Bhoodan lands spread over 10 acres under survey numbers 194 and 195 at Nagaram village of Maheshwaram mandal in Rangareddy district.
Justice K. Lakshman of the HC directed the Additional Advocate General T. Rajnikanth Reddy to get instructions in the matter after hearing a writ petition filed by an agriculturist Vadthya Ramulu who contended that his lands were sold off by private persons fraudulently to some senior IAS and IPS officers. The judge directed the AAG to explain the government’s stand in the matter by July 28.
The petitioner from the scheduled tribe maintained that his father late Jamala purchased the land from its original owner Nawab Mohd. Haji Khan in 1964. It was registered by the Sub-Registrar Office of Ibrahimpatnam. Five acres of this land was gifted to him through gift settlement deed in 2019 which was registered by the Maheshwaram SRO in 2019, according to the writ petition. Eventually, the authorities issued pattadar passbook to him in 2020.
The petitioner’s counsel submitted that four private persons, in connivance with the Kandukur Revenue Divisional Officer, got the lands mutated online on their names. But the manual records still remained on the name of the petitioner, the counsel pointed out. Using documents generated through the fraudulent mutation of the lands, the private persons sold off the land to 34 senior IAS and IPS officers, the petitioner claimed.
He stated that he had submitted an application to the State government to constitute a Commission of Enquiry into the fraudulent sale of the lands, but the authorities did not respond to it. The counsel informed the bench that another writ petition alleging fraudulent sale of Bhoodan lands in Maheshwaram mandal was pending in the HC. Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy had already directed the Revenue and the Registration department not to permit any further transactions on the said lands in that writ petition.
Justice Lakshman directed the Registry to tag both the pleas together and adjourned the matter to July 28.
Published – July 18, 2025 10:10 pm IST
