Hyderabad: Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari on Tuesday requested the Telangana High Court for four weeks time to file a comprehensive report on issuing succession rights and pattadar passbooks to ‘Boodhan land’ parcels at Nagaram of Maheshwaram mandal to private parties.
The Chief Secretary submitted that a suo motu case was initiated by the revenue principal secretary, competent authority for the Telangana Bhoodan Yagna Board, and notices had been issued to the parties and the matter was scheduled for final hearing on February 15. Santhi Kumari submitted that she would file the report after the conclusion of the proceedings.
Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy of the Telangana High Court had on December 2, 2024, ordered the Chief Secretary to furnish the classification of the disputed land, including the action proposed against the then district collector Amoy Kumar, on whom serious allegations were levelled in issuance of pattadar passbooks to the private parties when the issue was pending before the High Court.
The judge issued these orders while dealing a petition filed by Farooq Ali Khan, who challenged the proceedings issued by revenue authorities in 2021 in issuing succession certificate and passbooks for some part of 47 acres in Survey No. 181 of Nagaram, despite it being recorded as Bhoodan land. The petitioner claimed the land and challenged the classifying of the land as Bhoodan land, before the High Court in 2006. The matter is pending.
Despite the status quo orders, the authorities issued passbooks to third parties in 2021 and the very same officers had refused to issue passbooks in 2020, to the petitioner.
