The High Court in Telelangana ordered the cost of 50,000 GBP for Mohan Rao, a competent official appointed under the part of the Evacuee Interest Department, for “settling the land dispute”.
The justice of the CV Baskar Reddy of HC, saying a verdict in a written petition submitted by the legal heirs of one Saleh Fatima Begum, ordered a competent official to destroy the application he submitted within three months. The judge, who observed that the fact had shaken the case with the conscience of the HC, said the competent official failed to decide this matter even after 25 years.
Saleh Fatima owned land in different parts of the Yangaon district. Given that its family members and siblings migrated to Pakistan after the division of the country, their properties were classified as real estate evacuated under the provisions of the interest of evacuaee (separation) AKT-1951. Saleha Begum ensured a registered sales certificate of real estate in 1967 by paying the government for 38,415 GBP. She died in 1987 without claiming any representation or entitlement to real estate.
In 1988, her legal heirs proceeded to the government to assign them land and in 1989 to ensure their order. The third party turned to HC, which claims rights over property. After a long -term legal battle of HC in 2000, he ordered to turn to a competent officer who ordered both parties to maintain the status quo.
The petitioners turned to the HC and stated that what kept their request waiting for the last 25 years, and in the meantime the 1951 law was abolished. “It is very unfortunate that the petitioner and its predecessors have questioned litigation on the issuance of a sales certificate from more than seven decades,” the judge noted in the judgment.
Published – 4 July 2025 9:48
