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Their declare was based mostly on occupancy rights granted in 1980 to their predecessors by the Income Divisional Officer, following an earlier course by the Excessive Courtroom. Nonetheless, the joint collector, in an enchantment filed by the Mandal Income Officer in 2004, put aside these Occupancy Rights Certificates (ORCs), citing that the lands fell inside a water physique and subsequently couldn’t be legally occupied or cultivated underneath the AP (Telangana Space) Abolition of Inams Act. The order pointed to fraud and misrepresentation within the acquisition of the ORCs and highlighted that the lands have been submerged and non-cultivable at the same time as of the important vesting date in 1973.
The petitioners, who didn’t seem in the course of the enchantment hearings, argued that the delay of 24 years in submitting the enchantment mustn’t have been condoned and that they have been denied the due means of regulation. The petitioners additionally cited prior Excessive Courtroom choices which directed the fee of compensation for acquisition by the municipal authorities underneath the guise of environmental beautification. Nonetheless, the choose upheld the joint collector’s reasoning, reaffirming that water our bodies have to be preserved, even when unused.
The choose emphasised that land submerged in tanks and categorized as poramboke or waste land can’t be topic to ORCs underneath the Inams Abolition Act. The choose additionally famous that the petitioners failed to supply any proof of title or cultivation and confirmed that any sale made by notarised agreements by their predecessors held no authorized validity.
The PIL hunted for a course to empower the police personnel on discipline to take stringent motion towards residents who day by day humiliate or intimidate neighborhood animal feeders. The petition famous that weak puppies and mom canines undergo abandonment, deprivation of meals and water, and infrequently die of hunger or dehydration. The panel directed the petitioner to file a rejoinder to the counter and additional directed the remaining respondents to file their response.
HC for quicker motion on faux SI appointments
Justice Surepalli Nanda of the Telangana Excessive Courtroom directed the state police division to expedite the pending disciplinary proceedings towards 5 people accused of securing sub-inspector (Civil) posts by fraud and impersonation in the course of the 2008 recruitment drive carried out by the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh authorities. The choose heard a writ plea filed by Nimma Mahipal Reddy and three others who have been subsequent in line based mostly on benefit, in search of reduction from the inordinate delay in concluding the disciplinary motion towards the accused.
The petitioners claimed that the continued suspension of the accused, with out concluding the proceedings, unjustly denied them their rightful appointment to the sub-inspector posts. The choose acknowledged the extended inaction. The petitioners additionally contended that regardless of a number of representations made by the petitioners in 2017, no conclusive steps are taken by the respondent authorities. Taking a balanced view, the choose disposed of the writ petition with a course to the petitioners to submit recent representations to the official respondents inside two weeks and directed the respondents to get rid of their representations inside 4 weeks.
Collector’s reclassification of 20.12-acre Hole Land stayed
Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy of the Telangana Excessive Courtroom suspended a continuing of district collector, Ranga Reddy directing to reclassify 20.12 acre authorities “Biladakala” (hole land) in Kondakal Village as personal patta land. The choose is coping with a writ plea filed by Yarrapothu Sailaja. The petitioner alleged that M/s. Bloostic Land Holdings Pvt. Ltd., represented by Shalini Bhoopal, encroached on the land by developing a compound wall, obstructing entry to adjoining properties.
Earlier, in the same writ petition, the tahsildar confirmed the encroachment and initiated motion underneath the AP Land Encroachment Act, 1905. Nonetheless, the order of collector in 2022 to reclassify the land ignored these findings. Noting the discrepancy, the choose barred any change within the land’s standing till additional hearings and mentioned that such disputes ought to ordinarily be resolved by civil courts. The matter is adjourned to June 24, 2025, directing the respondents to file their counter-affidavits.
