In Telangana, property owners locked out of their own land
Property owners in Telangana are facing significant legal hurdles as their lands are being classified under the prohibited list of the Registration Act. This prevents them from selling their own property, often leaving them in financial distress.
Why it matters
It highlights systemic administrative issues in land governance that directly impact the financial security of individual property owners.
The deal is made, the buyer has been found, the price has been agreed upon, the documents are in order. Then comes the final step: registration. But for an increasing number of property owners, that is precisely where everything falls apart.
Many say they only discover that their land has been included in the prohibited list under Section 22A of the Registration Act when they walk into a Sub-Registrar Office (SRO) to complete what they believed would be a routine transaction. One of them is 40-year-old mason Udayagiri Prasad of Narapally in Medchal-Malkajgiri district, near Hyderabad.
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