Several owners of legally purchased plots, houses and apartments across Telangana are finding themselves unable to sell, mortgage or transfer their properties after entire survey numbers containing prohibited categories such as Bhoodan, waqf, ceiling surplus and assigned lands were brought under the Section 22A prohibited list. But the Congress-led government says not one cent of land has been deliberately added to the list since it assumed office in December 2023. P. Laxma Reddy and M. Rajeev explore the ground situation