# Telangana HC rejects farmer’s appeal citing jurisdictional limits 2026-08-26T05:56:59+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Telangana High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Kadannagari Babu, a 67-year-old farmer from Shamirpet, ruling that his plea was not maintainable under the Letters Patent because it sought to effectively quash criminal proceedings. The division bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin held that the relief fell outside the scope of appeals permitted by the Letters Patent. Babu had approached a single judge seeking a declaration that a criminal case registered at the instance of fellow farmer Kadannagari Munu Swamy was illegal and violative of his constitutional rights. Munu Swamy had alleged trespass, property damage and threats. The single judge refused to quash the case, directing police not to take coercive action without due process. Aggrieved, Babu appealed. The bench accepted the government pleader's argument that entertaining such an appeal under the Letters Patent would be impermissible. Babu had contended the dispute was purely civil, but the court disagreed and dismissed the appeal. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Appeals against single-judge criminal orders are governed by the Code of Criminal Procedure, not by Letters Patent, which define the High Court's civil and constitutional jurisdiction. The Telangana High Court's ruling confirms that a farmer cannot bypass the statutory appeal route by reframing a quashing petition as a civil declaratory suit. This procedural bar leaves Kadannagari Babu with only a criminal revision petition before a single judge or, ultimately, a special leave petition in the Supreme Court. The underlying land dispute between the two farmers will continue in the trial court, where the charge sheet has already been filed. The next hearing in that criminal case will determine whether the police's evidence supports the trespass and threat allegations or whether the case is indeed a civil dispute dressed in criminal clothes. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Leads with the court's legal ruling on maintainability, not on the farmer's grievance This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Aparesh Kumar Singh, Hyderabad, Letters Patent, Shamirpet, Telangana High Court Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/telangana-hc-rejects-farmers-appeal-citing-jurisdictional-limits/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/telangana-hc-rejects-farmers-appeal-citing-jurisdictional-limits/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/