Telangana 1000 Cr land allotment: Why Madhura Nagar residents are against IAS Amoy Kumar

Hyderabad: IAS officer D Amoy Kumar who earlier served as the district collector of Ranga Reddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri is under the radar of various investigation agencies.

The conferred IAS officer was among the key officers during the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) regime. He was handpicked over many bureaucrats for the district collector’s post.

Officer called for questioning in a land case

After the Congress came to power, the IAS officer was transferred and posted as joint secretary to the government, AH, DD&F department. However, it is of note that he was called by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a land case related to Ranga Reddy district.

Meanwhile, another complaint surfaced against Amoy Kumar.

Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Welfare Association filed a complaint to the joint director of ED on Amoy Kumar, accusing him of fraudulently changing revenue entries worth Rs 1,000 crores in bearing numbers 108, 109, 110 and 111 of Tatti Annaram Village, Abdullapurmet Mandal (formerly part of Hayathnagar Mandal), Rangareddy District.

Land sold decades ago

The land has already been converted into more than 800 plots and sold to various people through registered sale deeds decades ago – already recorded as plots in the revenue records. In their complaint, association vice president Ragidi Laxma Reddy said that originally one Suraya Yar Jung was the pattadar of the land of an extent of 104.12 guntas in site numbers 63, 68, 90, 91, 94, 95, 97, 98, 100, 101, 108, 109, 110 and 111 of Tatti Annaram Village.

Subsequently, mutation was ordered on June 6, 1951, substituting the name of one Maddi Satyanarayana, son of Achi Reddy, as pattadars of the said land. Pursuant to the said orders, the names of Maddi Satyanarayana Reddy and his brother Maddi Bal Reddy were recorded as pattadars and possessors of the land bearing numbers 108 to 111 in 70.39 guntas in the Khasra pahani and subsequent pahanies. Neither Suraya Yar Khan nor his successors were ever in possession of the said land since then.

Residential layout prepared

In 1980, Maddi Satyanarayana Reddy and Maddi Bal Reddy appointed one MV Ranga Chary as their attorney under a registered GPA document bearing No 128 of 1980 dated August 18, 1980, entrusting various powers upon him including the power to alienate the above land. MV Ranga Chary, after obtaining an exemption from ULC authorities developed the above land into a residential layout comprising more than 800 plots under the name and style Bhagya Lakshmi Nagar Colony after obtaining a sanctioned layout.

On February 5, 1981, he sold 130 plots developed in the said layout to Radhakrishna Cooperative House Building Society under sale deeds bearing numbers 840/81, 841/81, 842/81, 843/81 and 844/81. Similarly, he sold 32 plots to Aruna Cooperative Housing Society under registered sale deeds bearing document numbers 631 of 1982 dated January 28, 1982, and 664/1982 dated January 29, 1982. Also, the remaining plots were sold to various third parties through registered sale deeds.

“We purchased some plots in the above layout from the original plot holders and we are in possession of the plots purchased by us. Pursuant to the above land being developed into residential layout, the then revenue authorities have already recorded the said fact in the revenue records by recording ‘plots’ in the possession column of the pahanies from 2000-01 onwards,” Laxma Reddy said.

‘False, speculative and collusive suit’

This being the case, a person named Qamerunnisa Begum, the daughter-in-law of Suraya Yar Jung, in collusion with her other family members, filed a ‘false, speculative and collusive suit’ for partition against them bearing numbers 887 of 1987 on the file of IV Additional Judge, City Civil Courts at Hyderabad in respect of various properties including the lands in Tatti Annaram Village suppressing all the above facts. The said suit was dismissed on July 24, 1992. Against the said dismissal, she filed CCCA No 30 of 1993 before the High Court.

The association vice president further said that pending appeal, the parties therein i.e. family members of Suraya Yar Jung entered into a collusive compromise and obtained a compromise decree and got their names mutated in the revenue records behind the back of the purchasers of the plots vide orders dated April 15, 2005, in proceeding number B/1456/2004. Aggrieved by the said mutation orders, several persons filed writ petitions before the High Court in WP numbers 9944 of 200, 9946 of 2005, 11527 of 2005 and 11623/05.

The purchasers of the plots in the aforementioned layout have formed into an association under the name and style ‘Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Welfare Association’ and filed an appeal bearing case number A2/1990/2005 before the authority concerned challenged the above mutation orders. When the said appeal was not disposed of, they filed a writ petition 13589 of 2005. However, the said writ petition was dismissed on June 24, 2005, directing the authority to dispose of the appeal filed by the association.

Appeal of association dismissed

Subsequently, the authority dismissed the above appeal of Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Welfare Association through orders dated March 2, 2006, aggrieved by which the said association filed a revision before the joint collector, Rangareddy District, but the same was dismissed on December 12, 2008.

Meanwhile, based on the collusive compromise decree and fraudulent mutation orders obtained by them, the family members of Suraya Yar Jung brought into existence collusive sale deeds in favour of Ammoda Developers and Promoters Pvt Ltd, represented by director B Mallaiah Yadav in respect of the above lands.

Ammoda Developers could not claim lands purchased

Though sale deeds were executed in its favour, Ammoda Developers and Promoters did not get any possession of the lands allegedly purchased by it since the same are in the possession of the plot holders.

Also, it did not get any title under the said documents since the alleged vendors themselves had no title over any portion of the above lands in light of the facts stated above. However, on the basis of such sham, bogus and fraudulent sale deeds, the members of Ammoda Developers and Promoters have started making efforts to high-handedly grab the land in the possession of the plot holders.

‘Fraudulently obtained pattadar papers’

Maddi Bhagyamma, Maddi Venkatamma, Maddi Srikanth Reddy and others, claiming to be the legal heirs of Maddi Satyanarayana Reddy and Maddi Bal Reddy, fraudulently obtained pattadar pass books and title deeds with the help of one K Pratap Reddy and his sons in illegal manner suppressing the fact that the land was already sold by their Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Association (2256/2004) predecessors long back.

The same was converted into residential layout as stated above, brought into existence through sham, bogus and collusive registered sale deeds in favour of Taurus Homes Pvt Ltd, Cherika Laxma Reddy, son of Venkat Narasimha Reddy, K Rajani, wife of K Karunakar Reddy, Ch Bharathi, wife of Laxma Reddy, Medasani Anuradha, wife of Rajaram Linga Reddy and N Narotham Reddy, son of Pratap Reddy in respect of some of the above lands. On the basis of such sham and bogus documents, the alleged purchasers along with their alleged vendors filed a revision (D5/6593/2005) before the joint collector, Rangareddy District, challenging the mutation orders passed in favour of the legal heirs of Suraya Yar Jung.

FIR against K Pratap Reddy

However, in a submission dated May 14, 2007, addressed to the district collector, Ranga Reddy District, and the tahsildar, Hayathnagar Mandal in a letter (A/862/2003) dated April 4, 2007, addressed to the SHO, Hayath Nagar PS, have categorically stated that the pattadar passbooks and title deeds being relied upon Maddi Bhagyamma and others are not issued in accordance with law and they were obtained through fraudulent means. An FIR was registered against K Pratap Reddy and his sons in PS, Hayathnagar and the said K Pratap Reddy was in fact arrested by the police concerned.

Realising that the fraud committed by them was exposed, Maddhi Bhagyamma and her family members sought to withdraw the above revision case. However, Taurus Homes pursued the revision before the joint collector.

Ultimately, the said revision petition was also dismissed on December 12, 2008.

Aggrieved by the same, Taurus Homes filed a writ petition (4989 of 2009) and the same was disposed of by the court, by orders dated April 8, 2009, setting aside the mutation orders passed by the MRO in favour of the legal heirs of Suraya Yar Jung and remanded the matter back to the tahsildar for fresh consideration.

On remanding the matter back, the deputy collector and tahsildar, Hayath Nagar vide orders dated June 27, 2012, without considering the objection of various parties including the plot holders and Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Association exceeding its powers and jurisdiction, passed orders holding that the subject lands are patta lands of Nawab Askar Jung, father of Suraya Yar Jung. Aggrieved by the said orders, the Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Welfare Association filed an appeal before this authority and the same is pending adjudication.

Criminal complaint

The members of the said association have also lodged a criminal complaint against K Pratap Reddy and his sons, Maddi Bhagyamma and her children and others. An FIR (114 of 2019) was registered against them on March 1, 2019, by Hayathnagar PS and the investigation is pending.

Further, writ petitions bearing numbers 25102/12, 26853/12 and 40594/15 were filed by various claimants and the same are pending adjudication. Based on the above illegal orders of the tahsildar, Hayathnagar the legal heirs of Suraya Yar Jung are trying to obtain pattadar passbooks and title deeds in their favour.

Scope of the ROR Act

Maddi Bhagyamma and others, who were allegedly part of the earlier fraud, are also making hectic efforts to obtain pattadar passbooks and title deeds in their favour. Both parties were deliberately and wantonly suppressing the fact that the lands in site numbers 108 to 111 were already sold and converted into a residential layout by the pattadars Maddi Satyanarayana and Maddi Bal Reddy through their duly constituted attorney MV Ranga Chary who sold the plotted area to various parties and that, at present, more than 800 persons are in possession and enjoyment of their respective plots.

Once the land was developed into layout, it fell beyond the scope of the ROR Act and all the aforementioned subsequent mutation proceedings and other proceedings initiated by various claimants before the revenue authorities as if the above lands are agricultural lands are null, void ab initio and unsustainable. Also, once the lands are converted into non-agricultural lands, there arises no question of issuing any pattadar passbooks or title deeds in respect of the said lands. If any such documents are issued, it would lead to chaos resulting in several litigations.

In a special tribunal, Ranga Reddy District, Amoy Kumar in case number ST/D5/75/2021 (earlier A2/5849/2012) dated February 8, 2021, passed orders without any notice to Madhura Nagar Plot Owners Association, he said.