Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977

The Collector initiated suo motu proceedings under the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 and Section 166‑B of the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Land Revenue Act, 1950 to cancel assignments of land that allegedly violated the Special Loani Rules. The Single Judge of the Andhra Pradesh …

The case concerned a 5‑acre parcel of land originally assigned to a landless poor woman, Sagiraju Bangaramma, who sold it in 1970 to another landless poor person, Durga Ramalingeswara Rao, before the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 came into force. After Rao’s death, his heirs sold th…

The appellants claimed ownership of a 3.34‑acre parcel of land in Kurnool district, asserting that it was a patta land acquired by a registered sale deed in 1970 and that they had been in uninterrupted possession for over twenty years. The State argued that the land was an assigned government land, subject to a non‑ali…