Overview

• Justice K. Lakshman ordered the Bhoodan Board to submit by July 31 comprehensive statewide details of lands donated, redistributed and still held under the Bhoodan movement.
• The court upheld interim directives that keep surveys 181, 182, 194 and 195 under the prohibited list, barring any further transactions or record mutations.
• Petitioners allege that those survey parcels were illegally mutated and transferred to serving and retired IAS and IPS officers, a claim disputed by respondents who say the lands are unconnected to the Bhoodan Board.
• Additional Advocate General T. Rajanikanth Reddy said the state would support a Telangana-wide commission of inquiry if ordered but opposed a probe confined solely to this case as a private cause.
• Counsel for the respondent officers challenged the petitioners’ locus standi and urged the court to lift prohibitory orders in the absence of concrete proof of land ownership.