Telangana high court orders deletion of 32 acres from prohibitory list | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: Telangana high court has directed revenue authorities to remove 32.26 acres of land in Chatanpally village near Shadnagar from the prohibitory register within four weeks, holding that administrative records must reflect binding judicial orders.Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty passed the order while allowing a writ petition filed by Pasham Lakshman Goud and others, who challenged the continued inclusion of their lands in four survey numbers in the prohibited properties list and the consequent unilateral cancellation of their sale deeds.The petitioners contended that the lands originally belonged to private pattadars and protected tenants. They pointed out that the high court, in earlier writ petitions, had already set aside the 2003 gazette notification that classified the lands as waqf property.Despite those judicial rulings, the lands continued to figure in the prohibitory register, restricting transactions and affecting their ownership rights, the petitioners argued. They maintained that the failure to remove the entry violated their constitutional right to property.The Waqf Board submitted that the high court had already invalidated the gazette notification concerning the lands. It also contended that its chief executive officer did not possess the statutory authority to directly modify or delete entries in the prohibitory register maintained by the revenue and registration departments.In its judgement, the high court observed that administrative records cannot override or ignore binding judicial declarations. The court noted that once the gazette notification was struck down, the basis for treating the lands as waqf property ceased to exist.The continued presence of the lands in the prohibitory register, despite the earlier court rulings, amounted to an unlawful restriction on the petitioners’ property rights, the court held.Emphasising that public authorities are duty-bound to carry out consequential changes arising from final court orders, Justice Alishetty directed the authorities to remove the subject lands from the prohibitory register within four weeks.