Rahmat Pasha, the Hyderabad-born man who helped victims of the December 14, 2025, Bondi Beach attack in Sydney, says his 75-year-old father is being threatened and harassed over a disputed piece of farmland in Telangana’s Vikarabad district, even though a civil court has protected his possession.
Pasha, who according to The Times of India was nominated for bravery awards and given permanent residency in Australia for helping injured people reach ambulances, told The Observer Post that his family has faced years of threats, intimidation and police harassment over the three-acre plot in Survey No. 277/A at Alampally.
He alleges that on November 4 police visited his father and pressured him, despite court directions restraining police from interfering in private civil land disputes. These are the family’s allegations, and the police have not responded.
What the court has said
Documents shared with The Observer Post show that Pasha’s father, Mohammed Azmath Pasha, approached the Principal Junior Civil Judge at Vikarabad. On November 11, 2024, the court granted him a temporary injunction in I.A. No. 186 of 2022 in O.S. No. 145 of 2022.
The order restrains the respondents and their agents from interfering with his peaceful possession of the land, after finding a prima facie case, balance of convenience and the risk of irreparable injury. The court looked at his registered sale deed, pattadar passbook, revenue records, photographs and a police complaint. The order is interim protection over possession. It does not decide who owns the land, and the main suit is still pending.
The case concerns adjoining plots bought from the same seller, Rishi Kashyap, on the same day in 1998. Azmath Pasha says he bought three acres under Document No. 31/1998. The respondents, including his brother Mohd. Khalil Pasha, say they bought the neighbouring land under Document No. 32/1998. They dispute his boundaries and rely on a rectification deed dated March 17, 2022. They also allege that his compound wall was built without municipal permission and that the case is being used to obstruct a government survey. The court noted a boundary dispute that needs further hearing.
Azmath Pasha says he built a compound wall, fencing and gate in 2012, and that on February 22, 2022, the respondents damaged them with a JCB. A police case, Crime No. 71/2022, was registered the next day under Sections 447 and 427 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
Allegations of threats
Pasha has shared photographs of a board at the property that cites the 2024 injunction and warns of contempt of court, and a public notice published on January 5, 2025 on his father’s behalf. The notice reflects the family’s position and is not a judicial finding of ownership.
He has also shared a video which he says shows a man named Rakesh burning the board. He alleges that Rakesh threatened to burn his father alive, and that Rakesh, Aslam Khaleel and others have threatened to kill the whole family.
On the police, Pasha says the family has complained to senior officers, including the Superintendent of Police, without result. He cites a report by The News Minute from November 3 saying that Justice T. Vinod Kumar of the Telangana High Court directed police not to interfere in private civil land disputes and to act under law when a criminal offence is reported.
Pasha alleges that Rakesh, Aslam Khaleel and Vaneeta act as benami representatives of Congress MLC Balmoor Venkat. Venkat told The News Minute that he does not know Pasha or his family, that he told a Congress functionary involved in the matter to stay away, and that he sees it as a family dispute. Aslam Feroz also disputed the family’s version to the same outlet, saying Azmath Pasha himself divided the land and that he legally owns the part he is building on, citing a building approval and a legal hurdle to the construction.
The family wants protection for its elderly father, action on its complaints and an inquiry into the alleged threats and political ties. As the main civil case goes on, the questions are whether the injunction is being respected on the ground and whether the authorities will respond to the allegations of threats to a 75-year-old litigant.
