This is an oral order dismissing a writ petition by the Court as infructuous on counsel's submission that the grievances vanish because the petitioner villages have already merged into the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
The writ petition was dismissed as infructuous with no order as to costs and pending miscellaneous petitions closed.
This page shows the compact analysis of this judgement. The full analysis — procedural history, issue-by-issue holdings with ratio and obiter, advocates, and paragraph-level evidence for every claim — is being added to the record in batches and will appear here when this judgement has been through it.
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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATEOF TELANGANAAT HYDERABAD (SPecial Original Jurisdiction)
WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTEENTHDAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FOUR
PRESENT
THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICEK.LAKSHMAN
WRIT PETITION No 222400F 2024
Between:
AND
Petition under Article226 of the Constitutionof lndiaprayingthat in the circumstances stated inthe affidavitfiled therewith, the High court may be pleased to issue an appropriatewrit, order or Diregtion, more particularly one in the nature of Writ ofMandamusto declaring action of the RespondentNo' 1 I I
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herein in issuing Memo No.5924/MA/2024Dated.26.O7.2024and thereby extending thejurisdiction of GHMCup to oRR limitscomprisingof several Municipalities, Municipal corporationsand Gram Panchayatswithout taking the opinion of the villagers as beingillegal, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14,21of the Constitution of lndia.
lA NO: 1 oF 2024
Petition under Section 151 CPCprayingthatin the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in supportof the petition,the High Court may be pleasedto suspend theproceedings in vide Memo No.59241MN2024daled.26.07.2024-
counse| fo r the Petition"', :$i,t:it.,Jl1Et?Rii_^
Counsel for the Respondents No.1,2&6: GP FoQ MCPL ADMN URBANDEV Counsel forthe RespondentsNo.3to5:SRI G.NARENDER REDDY' SC FORGP The Court made the following:ORDER
HON'BLE SRI JUSTTCE K.LAKSHMAN
WRIT PE-TITION No.2224O of 2o24
ORAL ORDER:
Sri M.Ranj ithReddy, leamed counsel representing Ms. V. Sanjana, learnedcounselfor the petitioners and leamed Standing
counsel lorMunicipalAdministration,on instructions would submit that Bahardurguda, Chirrnagolkonda,Peddagolkonda' Hameedullahnagar,Rasheedgudamerged into GHMC Municipality.
Therefore, causein the presentwrit petition does not survlve.
Recording the saidsubmission,this Writ Petition is dismissed as inl-ructuous.'lhereshall be no orderas to costs.
As a sequel, the miscellaneouspetitions, if any,pendingshall
stand closed
SD'. L. LAKSHMIBABU ASSISTANT.REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// L SECTIONOFFICER
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DATED:1611012024
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ORDER
WP.No.22240 ot 2024
DISMISSING THE WRIT PETITION AS INFRUCTUOUS WITHOUT COSTS {P 4lwl>,1 1c$.i^
3 issues framed by the court
Whether the extension of GHMC jurisdiction by issuing a memo without taking villagers' opinions is illegal and violative of Articles 14 and 21.
Whether the cause in the writ petition survives given the merger of the affected villages into GHMC itself.
Whether the petition should be dismissed as infructuous.
G Padmavathi and others
The State of Telangana and others
K. Lakshman
As recorded by the court registry
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