( 1 ) WHETHER the first respondent herein can grant permission for construction of building in a park is the question involved in this application.

( 2 ) THE first writ petitioner is the Cooperative Housing Society. It has purchased 24 acres 14 guntas of land on 23-10-1956. The said land belonged to one Mir Osman ali Khan who sold it to Saleem Khan. The latter sold it to the first petitioner-society and whereafter plots were allotted to its members by it. The building plan submitted by the society for construction of the buildings was approved. There exists and approved lay out. As per the lay out an extent of 2500 square yards, which is covered by roads on four sides, was set apart for park and the said land was handed over to the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, which assumed the possession thereof. The first respondent, however, instead of developing the area as a park leased out about 1800 square yards of the park site to the second respondent for construction of school therein by reason of a lease deed dated 31-12-1981. Some other encroachments had also been made in the said area. The petitioners, therefore, have filed the writ petition for the following r