Allowed
Gummala Srinivasa Rao v. The Adjudicating Authority
Telangana HCWP/35279/2022
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 which treated transactions of 2011, 2014-15 and 2015 as benami transactions. Following the Supreme Court's ruling that the 2016 amendment is prospective, the High Court quashed the impugned orders.
What did the court decide?
Impugned show cause notices, provisional attachment orders and adjudicating orders set aside and quashed; writ petitions allowed without costs; pending miscellaneous petitions dismissed.