Hyderabad, Aug. 12 -- A wrong village tag on a set of survey numbers that has kept nearly 10,000 Malkajgiri property owners locked out of registrations, mutations and loans is finally headed for correction, after the Telangana Waqf Board acknowledged the mix-up following sustained pressure from local MLA Marri Rajashekhar Reddy.

The trouble traced back to a jurisdictional and village identification error in Waqf property records, where several survey numbers that actually belong to Mallapur village had been recorded as part of Malkajgiri village. The mislabelling placed the properties on the 22-A prohibited list, effectively freezing sale, purchase and loan transactions for affected residents.

In a communication dated July 29, the Waqf ...