Hanmappa v. The State Of Telangana,

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P. NAVEEN RAO WRIT PETITION No.32817 OF 2017 Dated:03.10.2017 Between:

Hanmappa, S/o. Late Bandeppa, Aged about 67 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o. Gouthapur (Village) Tandur (Mandal), Vikarabad District, Telangana State .. Petitioner And The State of Telangana, rep., by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others .. Respondents The Court made the following:

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P. NAVEEN RAO WRIT PETITION No.32817 OF 2017 ORDER:

Petitioner claims to be the owner of land to an extent of Acs.3.17 guntas in Survey No.120/A/2 of Gouthapur Village, Tandur Mandal, Vikarabad District. According to petitioner, Form I-B issued in his favour is still subsisting and reflects his name in pattadar and possessor columns. According to petitioner, he submitted application dated 20.02.2017 to the District Collector for issuance of pattadar passbook and title deeds and the same was acknowledged by the office of the District Collector, but so far pattadar passbook and title deeds are not issued to him. Hence, this Writ Petition.

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Learned counsel for the petitioner does not dispute that so far no application in Form VI-A in accordance with the prescribed procedure under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971 (for short, 'the Act') and the Rules made thereunder is submitted by the petitioner. Furthermore, as noticed in several similar cases, the Government is now insisting submission of such application through the Government web site in order to streamline such applications and to process them effectively and the Government is not accepting applications made in physical form and not in a prescribed proforma. That being so, since the petitioner has not submitted application in a prescribed form, but only submitted a representation, it cannot be said that the respondent authorities have erred in not acting on such application.

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The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner to submit application in Form VI-A in accordance with the provisions of the Act. It is needless to observe that as and when such application is made, the Tahsildar shall process the same by observing due procedure as required by the Act and complete the entire exercise as expeditiously as possible, within a period of three months from the date of submission of such application. There shall be no order as to costs. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in the Writ Petition shall stand closed.

____________________ P. NAVEEN RAO, J Date:03.10.2017 KH