HC sets aside 17 sale deeds’ cancellation

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Justice K. Sarath of the Telangana High Court acceptable speech the cancellation of 17 merchantability deeds relating to registration of astir 38 acres of lands successful Bahadurguda colony of Shamshabad mandal successful Ranga Reddy district.

The judge, however, said the verdict pronounced by the seat did not preclude the State authorities to instrumentality due steps to assertion its title, if any, implicit the said lands. Any matters pending astatine immoderate signifier successful the courts betwixt the executants of the said 17 merchantability deeds and the government, would beryllium taxable to the result of the proceedings, suits oregon appeals, the verdict said.

Three backstage persons filed writ petitions separately challenging the determination of the Stamps and Registration and the Revenue officials implicit cancellation of the merchantability deeds executed by the vendors and them. These pieces of lands were located successful Bahadurguda and purchased by the petitioners astatine antithetic points of time.

In 2017, the Shamshabad Tahsildar cancelled the merchantability deeds based connected the absorption of the Collector. Challenging this, the petitioners moved the HC. The judge, citing the Supreme Court verdict successful Yerikala Sunkalamma and different vs State of Andhra Pradesh, held that officials cannot deprive a idiosyncratic of his spot of immoderate benignant without circumstantial ineligible authority. The Tahsildar cited Rule-243 of Telangana Rules nether the Registration Act-1908.

But this Rule pertained to the database of prohibited properties. The lands relating to the 17 merchantability deeds are not notified arsenic prohibited properties nether conception 22-A of the Act, the justice said.

Published - October 18, 2025 09:38 p.m. IST

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