High Court · 2025

1. Smt. Burugula Laxmi, Wo. llaiah, aged 50 years, Occ. Agriculture 2. Sri.Burugula Shyam, S/o llaiah. aged 31 years, Occ. Agriculture No.1 and 2 are R/o. H.No.1-4l1, Dacharam Village, Bejjanki Mandal, Siddipet Dist., TG

3. Sri.Burugula Mahender, S/o llaiah, aged 29 years, Occ. Agriculture 4. Sri.Burugula Thirupathi, Sio. llaiah, aged 26 years, Occ. Agriculture labour No.3 and 4 are R/o. H.No 1-4l2. Dacharam Village. Be1'janki Mandal, Siddipet Dist., TG ...PET|T|ONERS AND '1- The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department,Telangana Secretariat. Hyderabad. T.S

2. The District Collector, Siddipet District, Siddipet TS-502 103 3. The Revenue Divisional Officer, Husnabad Revenue Division, Siddipet 4. The Tahasildar, Bejlanki Mandal, Siddipet District, TS-505 528 District,TS-502 103 ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of lndia praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased to issue an 4ppropriate writ, order or directions more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the inaction of respondents more particularly the respondent No.2 in considering the recommendation proposal vide Lr.No.C/702l2O2O,dated.O1-02-2025 submitted by the respondent No.3 for approving/sanctiohing the Rehabilrtation and Resettlement(R and R) benefits/amounts to the petitioners, who are declared as missing Project Displaced Families (PDF's) as per the report vide Lr. No.Bl777l20 l7, dated.30- 01-2025 submitted by the respondent No.3 in respect of the lmprovement of Thotapally Minor lrrigation Tank online Reservoir at Laddabanda, H/o. Dacharam Village of Bejjanki Mandal, Siddipet Dist,TG , to till this date as highly illegal, arbitrary, bad, and violation of articles of 14, 16 and 21 ol constitution of lndia and amounts to violation of principres of naturar justice an,J consequenfly direct the respondents more particurarry the respondent No.2, to approve/san ciion the Rehabilitation and Resetflement(R and R) benefitsiamounts to the petitioners who are declared as Project Dispraced famiries (pDF's) as 6rer the report vide Lr. No 8177712017, dated.3o-01-2025 submitted by the respondent No.3 forthwith. lA NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition under section 15i cpc praying that in the c:ircumstances stated in the affidavit filed rn support of the petition, the High court may be preased to di'iect the respondents more particurarry the respondent Nc.2, to consider the recommendation proposal vide Lr.No. cl702l202o,dated.a1-02_2025 submitted by the respondent No.3, for a pproving/sa nction ing the Rehabiritation and Resettlement(Rand R) be nefits/amou n ts to the petitioners n,ho are declared as missing project Displaced families(pDF, s) forthwith, pending disposal of the above W.P Counsel for the Petitioners: SRt BETHT VENKATESWARLU Counsel for the Respondents: Gp FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: ORDER l l THE HOI{'BLE SRI WSTICE N.V.SH RAVAN KUMAR Wrlt Petition No.l l 7O9 of 2025 ORDER: Questioning the inaction of respondent No.2 in considering the recommendation proposal uid.e , Lr.No.C/7O2l2O2O dated Ot.O2.2O2S submitted by respondent No.3 for approving/ sanctioning the Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) benefits/amounts to the petitioners who are declared as missing project Displaced Families as per the report uide Lr.No.B/777 /2017 dated 30.Ot.2O2S submitted by respondent No.3 in respect of the Improvement of Thotapally Minor Irrigation Tank online Reservoir at Laddabanda, Siddipet District till this date and consequently direct respondent No.2 to approve/ sanction the Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) benefrts to the petitioners, the present writ petition is filed.

2. It is the case of the petitioners that petitioner No.l is the only daughter to her parents and petitioner Nos.2 to 4 are her major sons. While so, in the year 2017, the Executive Engineer, IFFCC LMD Colony, Karimnagar has 2 addressed a requisition letter dated 25.09'2O1'" to revenue of lands in Laddabanda' authorities for acquisition District for submergence of Dacharam Village' SiddiPet Thotapally Ml Tank Online Reservoir' Thereeifter' a survey was conducted and a joint inspection report lt as Published wherein only the name of father of petitiorrer No 1 was mentioned as project Displaced Family and rvas entitled for Rs.7.6i Lakhs in terms of R&R Scheme lt is further submitted that Petitioner No.l along with her sons are staying together with her father as a joint iamily since her birth, ho'"r'ever, respondent authorities did n':t mention her name or her sons' name in the joint inspection report for Aggrieved ovt:r the same ' the entitlement of R&R benefits prcsent rvrit Petition is frled' 3 Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that the' Land Acquisition Offrcer and Revenue Divisional cotnmunication to Officer, Husnabad has addressed District Collector , Siddipet i'e', respondent No'2 uideletbet dated O\ 'O2'2O25 wherein it is subroitted that the Tahsildar/ respondent No'4 submitted a r':port stating that while conducting the Socio Econolnic SurveY^ the a , l ) petitioners have not given the details of the family 'members who are living in the house' However' in the said report, a tabular column was mentioned specifying the details of family members living in the same house along with their relationship and recommended their names for providing R&R benefits by considering them as missing Project Displaced Families and therefore requested the District Collector, Siddipet to kindly approve the missing PDFs who are eligible for payment of the said entitlements'

4. The Revenue Divisional Officer' Husnabad i'e'' respondent No.3 has placed a copy of instructions through learned Assistant Government Pleader and submitted that : the petitioners were already selected as missing PDFs and proposals were submitted by respondent No'3 to respondent'- No.2 through Lr'No'Cl7O2l2O2O dated O1.O2.2O25 and the sanction is awaited' It is further submitted that R&R benefits will be paid to the petitioners o., re"eipi of sanction by the Government and prayed this Court to Pass aPProPriate orders' $ t 4

5. Taking into consideration the above set of facts and circumstances of the case, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No'3 to take approving/ sanctiorring the appropriate steps in Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) benefitsT eLmounts to the petitioners who are declared as missing Project reprort uide Displaced Families as per Lr.No.Bl777 l2Ol7 d,ated' 3O.OL'2O25 and as per their entitlement and pass appropriate orders within a period of two (2) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order alrd forward the same to respondent No' l who shall thereafter consider the case of the petitioners and shall pass appropriate orders within a period of three (3) months.

6. With the consent of learned counsel on either side, this writ petition is disPosed of. As a sequel, miscellaneous applications, if any pending, shall stand closed. //TRUE coPY// SD/-P. PADMANABHA REDDY " 1 DEPUTY REGISTRAR ,N sec,oN oFFrcER ,1_ To 1 2 a I he Principa I Secreta ry. Revenue Department, TetrVnqr., Secretariat. Hyderabad. State of Telanqana, T.S The District Collector, Siddlpet District, Siddipet TS-502 103 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Husnabad Revenue Division, Siddipet District, TS-502 103

4. The Tahasildar Bejjanki Mandal, Siddipet District, TS-505 528 5 One CC to SRI BETHI VENKATESWARLU, Advocate tOpUCl 6 Two CCs to GP FOR REVENUE, High Court for the Stitr: of t'elangana, at Hyderabad IOUT] Two CD Copies PSK- it. 'ri! HIGH COURT DATED:21 104t2025 CC TODAY ORDER WP.No.11709 of 2025 1trE i 1;',; ,- - 1Ifi ',t_ , i, t.t j 13 25 hPfl Or' DISPOSING OF THE WRIT PETITION WITHOUT COSTS /o 4. za //5