Hyderabad: Former judge Abhinand Kumar Shavili has approached the Telangana High Court, seeking directions to the Rangareddy district administration and the registration and stamps department to remove 3.26 acres of land at Gubbadi near Shamshabad from the prohibited land list. The land belongs to him and his elder brother, Ashok Kumar Shavili. The petitioners claim that the authorities illegally listed their family property in the prohibited land category.
Justice NV Shravan Kumar, before whom the matter was listed on Monday, noted that the case pertains to the registration and stamps department and directed that it be listed before an appropriate bench on Tuesday.
According to the petitioners, they purchased the land during the 1980s and have been in possession since then. Local revenue authorities had also issued passbooks in their name, indicating that they were the legal owners of the land parcel.
However, in November 2025, authorities issued proceedings notifying the land parcel as prohibited land under the Telangana Registrations Act. “Notifying the land in the prohibited land category, classifying it as assigned land, is without any basis and contrary to the material record, as the names of the predecessors of those who sold us the land parcel reflect in revenue records and hence the question of these land parcels being assigned land does not arise,” the retired HC judge, who also served as acting Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court, and his brother stated.
Alleging that the revenue authorities acted unlawfully to include their land in the prohibited land list without any application of mind, they contended that the authorities failed to conduct a diligent and lawful exercise. “Hence, this action is untenable, illegal and violative of constitutional rights,” the petitioners added.
