PIL hearing over ‘Sada Bainamas’ adjourned to August 26

The Telangana High Court had adjourned to August 26 the hearing of a PIL petition seeking to declare illegal the GO Ms. No. 112 issued in 2020 facilitating regularisation of ‘Sada Bainama’ records.

A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin adjourned the matter with the petitioner’s counsel requesting for time to reply over the State government’s interim application in the matter. In 2020, Telangana government brought the GO to regularise unregistered land transactions (sale and purchase of lands). Sada Bainama is a system in Telangana where unregistered land transactions are mentioned on plain papers. The PIL plea was filed in 2020 to declare the GO illegal. The HC then passed an order staying operation of the GO. The Advocate General A. Sudarshan Reddy, presenting his submissions, requested the bench to vacate the stay order.

He informed the bench that under the new Telangana Bhu Bharati Act-2025, small and marginal farmers (who purchased agricultural land by way of Sada Bainama before June 2, 2014 and possessing the same for more than 12 years) can get their ownership of the lands regularised.

The AG requested the bench to vacate the stay order so that the government can process the regularisation requests received from October 12 to November 10 in 2020. The petitioner’s counsel sought time to respond on the AG’s submissions.