Allowed
Madabattula Srinivas v. The Adjudicating Authority
Telangana HCWP/35156/2022
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Batch of writ petitions challenging show cause notices, provisional attachment orders and adjudicating orders under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, on the ground that transactions predating the 2016 Amendment Act could not be treated as benami. Following the Supreme Court's Ganpati Dealcom decision that the 2016 Act is prospective, the court quashed the impugned orders a
What did the court decide?
Impugned show cause notices, provisional attachment orders and adjudicating orders set aside and quashed; all writ petitions allowed without costs; miscellaneous petitions dismissed.