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Telangana High Court Says Revenue Officials Cannot Issue Pattas Over Forest Land: What Property Buyers Should Know

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  Telangana High Court Says Revenue Officials Cannot Issue Pattas Over Forest Land: What Property Buyers Should Know Hyderabad | September 20, 2026 The Telangana High Court has strongly cautioned revenue authorities against interfering with land classified as forest land, observing that revenue officials do not have jurisdiction to issue pattas or distribute protected forest property. The observations, reported on September 20, 2026 , arose from a case involving approximately 44 acres in Rajaram village of Sirpur (Tandur) mandal in Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district . Nine petitioners told the court that they and their families had cultivated the land for decades and relied on pattadar passbooks and patta certificates. The forest department, however, treated the disputed area as forest land. The matter highlights an extremely important issue for anyone purchasing agricultural land, farm plots or property near forest boundaries in Telangana: a revenue document should not be treated in ...

₹3,000 Crore Telangana Land Dispute: 600 Acres Caught in Village Boundary and Survey Record Conflict

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  ₹3,000 Crore Telangana Land Dispute: 600 Acres Caught in Village Boundary and Survey Record Conflict Hyderabad | September 20, 2026 A decades-old land-boundary dispute involving nearly 600 acres valued at an estimated ₹3,000 crore has returned to focus as Telangana carries out a wider re-survey of land records across more than 2,200 villages. The dispute concerns land around Ankireddypalli in Keesara mandal of Medchal-Malkajgiri district and Ramalingampalli in neighbouring Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district . At the centre of the controversy are overlapping survey numbers, conflicting claims over village boundaries and disagreement over whether portions of the land are government, ceiling or privately held patta property. The case is particularly relevant to property buyers because it demonstrates why checking only a sale deed is not always enough. For land purchases around Hyderabad’s rapidly developing outskirts, the survey number, village map, boundary records and actual ground loc...