This Writ Petition is preferred by a sixty-year-old woman, questioning the legality and validity of an order passed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on 06.06.2012 directing the 3rd respondent owner of the building to pull down the said structure.

The petitioner is eking out her livelihood by working as a domestic help. She is a tenant of the premises bearing House No. 5-9-889, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad, for more than 3 ½ decades. The 3rd respondent owner of the premises has some disputes with the tenants in the first floor of the house, against whom he filed a civil suit, O.S. No. 2537 of 2004 on the file of the III Additional Rent Controller-cum-XV Junior Civil Judge, which was dismissed on 01.04.2006. It is the case of the petitioner that the 3rd respondent himself damaged one room on one side which was not let out to anyone. Thereafter, he seems to have made a representation to the 1st respondent Municipal Corporation complaining that the building is in ruinous condition. Conceding to the request of the 3rd respondent, the Commissioner passed orders on 06.06.2012, in terms of Section 456 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, requiring the structur