Hyderabad: A division bench of the Telangana high court set aside an order of a single judge issued in connection with a land dispute in February 2024. The bench directed the registry to list the same matter along with two other related writs and disposed of the case for an ‘analogous hearing‘.
The bench of acting chief justice Sujoy Paul and justice Renuka Yara gave the directions on Wednesday while dealing with a writ appeal filed challenging the single-judge order directing the writ petitioner to avail remedies under civil law by approaching the appropriate forum.
The single judge gave the directions in a writ petition pertaining to 17 ‘guntas’ of an undivided share of the petitioner in a disputed land, whose final layout was earlier approved by the HMDA.
Earlier, a farmer from Ghatkesar moved the high court seeking to declare a September 2023 order issued by HMDA related to the land measuring a total of 3,313 guntas in certain survey numbers at Ghatkesar, which also includes 17 guntas of undivided share of the petitioner.
As the order was contrary to his own final layout approved in March 2020 by HMDA, and against which there are two writ petitions, one filed by the farmer himself and another filed by an opposite party, the petitioner sought directions to declare the HMDA’s 2023 order as illegal.
He also urged the high court to direct the HMDA to withdraw its final layout and restrain the opposite party from alienating any part of the disputed land.
A single judge of the high court then observed that despite the court’s attempts to resolve the dispute by way of an amicable settlement, the parties did not agree to resolve the dispute as suggested by the court. The court then directed the petitioner to avail remedies under civil law by approaching the appropriate forum.
After hearing arguments from both parties, and also HMDA and other concerned authorities in a writ appeal challenging the single judge order, the division observed that there was a consensus for an analogous hearing after hearing arguments from all parties. “Hence, this petition may be linked with the two related writs,” ruled the bench and posted the matter for the next hearing date.