Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court took cognisance of the predicament of landowners in Mahbubabad district where authorities put 8 lakh acres of land, consisting of those which had pattas, on the ‘Prohibited list’ in the Dharani website. This avoided the owners from offering or moving their homes, and authorities were requiring kickbacks to omit the homes from the list. The High Court had actually gotten a letter on the matter, which it transformed to a public interest lawsuits (PIL). The letter stressed the state of the farmers in Kesamudram mandal of Mahbubabad district who were making the rounds of workplaces to get their homes delisted. The letter specified that income authorities, public agents and intermediaries were requiring lakhs of rupees to delist the residential or commercial properties. The letter mentioned that 8 lakh acres of land, which had actually been discussed as patta lands till the Dharani website was generated, were unlawfully marked as federal government land by profits authorities. Providing an example, the letter discussed that all the land in Narayanapuram town, Kesamudram mandal, Mahbubabad district, was put in the name of the forest department after the intro of the Dharani website. A department bench consisting of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy heard the PIL on Tuesday and released notification to the Chief Secretary, primary secretaries of profits and forest departments, CCLA, collector and district forest officer of Mahbubabad and profits of Kesamudram mandal. The court directed them to react on the problem within 4 weeks. The letter asked for the court to direct the authorities to correct the entries of patta lands of innocent farmers pursuant to the intro of Dharani website. When the aggrieved farmers approached the profits authorities by submitting online applications, the letter stated, the were requiring lakhs of rupees from each farmer for correction and to provide their particular e-passbooks. The profits authorities in collusion with the general public agents and property designers were turning such lands taken over from farmers into plots by deceptive methods and were offering them. …
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