Rana Begum v. The State Of Telangana

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.NAVEEN RAO WRIT PETITION No.14297 of 2019 ORDER:

Heard.

2. According to the petitioner, the grandmother of the husband of the petitioner was owning land to an extent of Acs.15-26 guntas in survey No.242 and Acs.8-18 guntas in survey No.243 situated at Tosham Village, Gudihathnoor Mandal. After her demise, the mother-in-law of the petitioner succeeded to the property. After the death of her mother-in-law, petitioner claims to have submitted an application to mutate her name in the revenue records. Petitioner now alleges that without accepting the request of the petitioner, the Tahsildar accepted the request of others and their names are mutated in the revenue records, though those persons are no way concerned. Aggrieved by such wrong mutation undertaken, representation was made to the Tahsildar to rectify the revenue records. As Tahsildar was not acting upon her representations, a representation was made to the District Collector on 25.06.2019. Alleging inaction on the said representation, this Writ Petition is filed.

3. As the representation to the District Collector was made only on 25.06.2019, this Court cannot entertain the writ petition on that ground. Even the earlier representations were not in exercise of appropriate grievance redressal mechanism. In the representation addressed to the District Collector also the petitioner was only asking the Tahsildar to rectify the revenue records. If the petitioner is aggrieved by wrong mutation made in the revenue records without giving any opportunity, she ought to

have preferred appeal, but the appeal time has since lapsed remedy of revision is also available. The petitioner has not availed the remedy of revision also, but only made representations.

4. Once the revenue records are corrected, Tahsildar cannot be asked to review the same. Revision is the only remedy available to the petitioner, if she is otherwise entitled to prefer such revision. Thus, leaving it open to the petitioner to avail the remedy of revision, the writ petition is disposed of. It is needless to observe that if revision is preferred, the same shall be considered expeditiously by following due procedure.

Miscellaneous Petitions pending in this writ petition, if any, shall stand closed. No order as to costs.

___________________ P.NAVEEN RAO, J 12th July, 2019.

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