The Telangana High Court made it clear that owners of buildings in Patelguda village of Ameenpur mandal in Sangareddy district are entitled to file cases against the municipal authorities, revenue department and HYDRAA before the competent civil court claiming compensation and damages for the illegal demolition of their structures, subject to the condition that their buildings are situated in private patta lands. The court clarified that if they are found to be in government land, then the residents cannot seek any relief. They will be left with only the option of urging the government to regularise their structures and the court cannot interfere in the said issue.
Meanwhile, the court also directed the assistant director of survey and land records in the district to conduct survey and localisation of the lands forming part of survey nos. 6 and 12 of Patelguda village to fix the boundaries and to demarcate patta and government lands. Justice C.
V. Bhaskar Reddy was dealing with a batch of petitions filed by residents of Patelguda, whose houses were recently demolished by revenue and civic authorities with the assistance of HYDRAA. The aggrieved house owners complained to the court that their buildings are situated in private patta land and their seller had obtained the nala conversion permission to convert the agricultural land into a residential zone.
The petitioners also submitted registration documents and building permissions. Without issuing any notice or survey, the auth.
