As many as 163 acres dispute land located at Varagali habitation in Momidi village limits near the Krishnapatnam port area here was blacklisted to prevent all the parties involved from carrying out this property sale transactions in the registration offices till further notice.
The said land was found to have been distributed to nearly 80 poor families under the land ceiling laws way back in 1982.
However, the current successors of the original land owner named Vemareddy Ranga Reddy had got this land re-registered in their names as part of the partition deed registered in the Sub-Registrar’s office in 2016. Following this, a local person sent a representation to District Collector R. Mutyala Raju demanding an inquiry into the re-registration of the distributed ceiling land.
In the official inquiries, it was found that though the 163 acres land was declared as surplus under the land ceiling laws in 1977 itself, there were no records as to whom the said land was distributed eventually. No records were stated to be available in the Chillakur Tahsildar office also.
Sources said that the assigned parties concerned were also not able to show the documents pertaining to the land assignment in this regard.
All these decades, the land was lying barren with no cultivation being carried out. But the land had now become hot property after the fast-paced development that took place in the area in the past one decade because of the coming up of the Krishnapatnam port nearby. The present disputed land, which had virtually no takers in the past, is now likely to fetch a price of anywhere between ₹20 lakh and ₹25 lakh.The promise of greater industrial development in the area because of the port, thermal projects, oil refineries and so on had triggered a new demand among the property owners for increasing their land banks in this region.
