Whether the revenue authorities have the power or jurisdiction to decide the complicated questions of title and possession?
In the case on hand, the orders dated 24.07.2000 passed by the Joint Collector directing the Appellant/3rd respondent to approach the Mandal Revenue Officer for sanction of succession over the lands would suggest that the Joint Collector, without making a detailed enquiry and without considering the facts that there was earlier partition suit filed and that there was a claim of joint common lineage of the family and the subject lands are considered as ancestral, without examining the said issues, has directed the Appellant/3rd respondent to approach the Mandal Revenue Officer for sanction of succession over the lands is inappropriate and unsustainable and that the consequential order dated 10.11.2000 passed by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Ghatkesar Mandal, Ranga Reddy district is in excess of jurisdiction and held to be null and void.
IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD ALOK ARADHE, CJ and N.V. SHRAVAN KUMAR, JJ. W.A.No. 142 of 2009 DECIDED ON : 13-10-2023 K. Jaipal Reddy Vs. Joint Collector, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad and others. 2023 (6) ALT 622 ( D.B. )
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