U. Vani Vs The State of Telangana — Writ and Judicial Review | Telangana HC (2025)

U. Vani Vs The State of Telangana — Writ and Judicial Review | Telangana HC (2025)

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

No substantive relief granted; petitioner permitted (per para 39) to seek appropriate relief from the competent Civil Court and, after obtaining the decree, to apply to the respondent authorities for issuance of the pattadar passbook.

Issue for consideration

Whether the action of respondent Nos. 2 to 4 in not entering the petitioner's name in the Dharani Portal and not issuing the pattedar passbook in respect of the subject land (Ac. 5.20 guntas, Sy. Nos. 1, 1AA, 1E, Muthvellyguda Village, Ghatkesar Mandal, Medchal-Malkajgiri District) is illegal, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14, 21 and 300-A of the Constitution, warranting writ intervention. +1 more

Court's answer

The Court expressly declined to express any opinion on the petitioner's right and entitlement for mutation of her name in the revenue records, deciding the matter purely on procedural/remedy grounds.

Ratio / Principle

The Court disposed of the writ petition by permitting the petitioner to approach the competent Civil Court for appropriate relief, and held that after obtaining the decree she would be entitled to make an application before the respondent authorities seeking issuance of the pattadar passbook; the writ petition was thereupon dismissed with no order as to costs.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Writ Petition No. 4246 of 2025 (under Article 226), High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad, C.V. Bhaskar Reddy J. (sole member), order dated 13-02-2025 — DISMISSED without costs. The petitioner (female; personal name illegible in OCR), purchaser of Ac. 5.20 guntas in Sy. Nos. 1, 1AA and 1E at Muthvellyguda Village, Kachwnaisingara Gram Panchayath, Ghatkesar Mandal, Medchal-Malkajgiri District under registered sale deed Document No. 6176 dated 17.09.2016, challenged the inaction of respondent Nos. 2-4 (District Collector; Revenue Divisional Officer, Keesara Division; Tahsildar, Ghatkesar Mandal) in not entering her name in the Dharani Portal and not issuing the pattadar passbook despite her Dharani grievance application (ID No. TTMU021601056467 as decoded) dated 11.11.2016 made under the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971. The Assistant Government Pleader (Revenue) contended that Section 4 of the 1971 Act required a person acquiring rights to apply within 45 days for updation of revenue records, that appeal under Section 9 of the ROR Act or a writ petition remained available, and that the 1971 Act had been repealed and replaced by the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 2020, so the eight-year-stale application could not be entertained. Without expressing any opinion on the petitioner's right and entitlement to mutation of her name in the revenue records, the Court permitted her to approach the competent Civil Court for appropriate relief and, after obtaining the decree, to apply to the respondent authorities for issuance of the pattadar passbook; the writ petition was dismissed with no order as to costs and pending miscellaneous petitions were closed. No precedent was cited or relied upon in the judgment.