ULLURAIAH Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In these petitions, the petitioners are contending that they have been issued with saguvali chits to various extents of lands in Sy.No.103 and 100 of Ramadevanahalli, Doddaballapur taluk, Bangalore rural district.

(2.) The prayer in all these writ petitions is that though saguvali chits have been issued to them in the year 2011-12, the same has not been mutated in their name, podi and dhurast work is not done by the concerned Tahsildar and ADLR. Hence, present petitions are filed to consider their representations.

(3.) In these proceedings, learned Additional Government Advocate Sri.Venktesh Dodderi submitted to this Court that there is manipulation of records in this proceedings including issuance of saguvali chits which are relied upon by the petitioners. Hence, the petitioners were called upon to produce original saguvali chits in all the four writ petitions. In the meanwhile, the Tahsildar of Doddaballapur Taluk, to produce the original records pertaining to aforesaid land. Accordingly, on 15.04.2019, learned counsel for the petitioners along with memo produced four saguvali chits issued in the name of each of the petitioners in all the four petitions. The Tahsildar of Doddaballapur Taluk, Sri.M.K.Ramesh is also before the court with the original records pertaining to said lands. The learned AGA and the Tahsildar of Doddaballapur M.K.Ramesh on going through the saguvali chits filed into Court by the petitioner's Counsel would bring to the notice of this court, that, the said documents are fake and concocted documents, in as much as the signature of the then Tahsildar of Doddaballapura, viz., Sri.Sampath Kumar as seen on the said saguvali chits is different when compared to his signature in the original records secured from the office of Tahsildar, Doddaballapur. This Court meticulously compared the signature of the then Tahsildar of Doddaballapur as seen in the original record and also in the saguvali chits produced by the learned counsel for petitioners. It is observed that, the two signatures appears to be different to the naked eye.