Nadergul’s 2015 title win meets a 22-A rerun
The Supreme Court upheld private title in Survey No. 613. Recent claims say the land remains on the government’s prohibited list and parts are under company control. The records needed to settle the present position are still missing.
Survey No. 613 remains caught between an earlier title judgment and a disputed present record.
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Nadergul’s Survey No. 613 has managed the rare feat of being privately owned in a 2015 Supreme Court judgment and reportedly government land in today’s 22-A list. Paperwork, apparently, has chosen neither side.
In Government of Andhra Pradesh v. Pratap Karan, decided on October 9, 2015, the Supreme Court upheld the successors’ claim over the land. The judgment said Raja Shivraj Dharmavanth Bahadur was its “pattadar, khatadar and owner” and found no evidence that the State had dispossessed the occupant after confiscation entries. It also said Nadergul was not a Jagir village.
Recent reporting, quoting Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, says the land remains in the 22-A prohibited list and that registrations and mutations took place in 2014 and 2016, during the previous BRS government. A separate report alleges companies are fencing or controlling about 274 acres, but provides no parcel-wise survey, possession map, certified registration record or official inspection report. AQ Square’s reported response is that the Supreme Court confirmed private ownership and that allegations linking it to the minister’s family are baseless; that position has not been independently checked against company filings.
The Supreme Court settled one title dispute. It did not identify today’s possessor. The Congress government now has the less glamorous task of publishing the records instead of leaving Nadergul to be governed by competing versions of paper. Until then, the only thing clearly fenced off is certainty.