Bhagyari , Poorna Jangaiah, v. State Of Telangana.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT HYDERABAD

FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA & THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH * * * * WRIT PETITION No.24124 of 2015 BETWEEN Bhagyari @ Poorna Jangaiah and others.

... PETITIONERS AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others.

...RESPONDENTS DATE OF JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED: 03.08.2015 SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL:

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR 1.

Whether Reporters of Local newspapers may be allowed to see the Judgments?

No 2.

Whether the copies of judgment may be marked to Law Reporters/Journals?

No

3.

Whether Their Ladyship/Lordship wish to see the fair copy of the Judgment?

No ORDER:

Petitioners seek allotment of an extent of Ac.0.20 guntas of land and claim that their case was recommended by the Tahsildar under proceedings dated 20.05.2013. It appears that, thereafter, the Collector endorsed otherwise doubting the veracity of the entries in the pahani for the year 1983-84. Based on that, under the impugned endorsement of the Tahsildar dated 23.07.2014, the request of the petitioners for allotment was rejected. The said endorsement is questioned in the writ petition as unreasonable and arbitrary.

2. In my view, since the petitioners seek allotment of Government land to themselves, the matter is exclusively for the Government to consider with reference to its policy, but for that, a Mandamus cannot be issued for allotment of land, which the petitioners seek as a consequential direction. The request of the petitioners appears to be duly considered and rejected. Hence, the writ petition appears misconceived. However, petitioners are at liberty to approach the hierarchical revenue authorities, if they seek allotment of land. The writ petition is dismissed. As a sequel, the miscellaneous applications, if any, shall stand closed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J August 3, 2015

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