IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI

WRIT PETITION No.42477 OF 2018

DATE : 12.12.2025

Between:

Rose Beauty Parlour and Family Studio

Rep. by its Proprietor Rekapalli Saraswathi …Petitioner

AND

The State of Telangana & Others

…Respondents

ORDER:

This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of

India seeking the following relief:

“…to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more preferably one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in issuing the impugned notification No.(L and O)/M4/3140/2010, dated. 30.06.2010 passed by the 2nd respondent as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory, violative of Article 14, 19(1) (g) of the Constitution of India, contrary to the provisions of the Hyderabad City Police Act, 1348 rash and consequently set- aside the same against the petitioner, in the interest or justice

and grant…”

2. None appeared on behalf of the petitioner.

3.1. Mr. D.Pradeep, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, appearing for the respondents, submits that, the petitioner was permitted by this Court, vide interim order dated 26.11.2018, to continue her business operations subject to certain conditions. Thereafter, no further contest has been raised by the petitioner.

3.2. Additionally, he fairly submits that a Coordinate Bench of this Court, in several similar writ petitions, has permitted petitioners to continue their business operations subject to compliance with certain specified conditions, and has clarified that any violation or transgression of applicable notifications or statutory provisions would entitle the respondents/police authorities to take appropriate action in accordance with law. He, therefore, prays that a similar order be passed in the present case.

4. I have carefully perused the material available on record.

5. As rightly contended by the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, this Court, in W.P. Nos. 16281 and 16419 of 2010 and the connected batch of matters, vide order dated 28.09.2022, permitted the continuance of business operations, subject to compliance with certain stipulated conditions. The relevant portion of the judgment is extracted hereunder:

“In view of the submissions of learned counsel for both sides, these Writ Petitions are disposed of in terms of order dated 04.02.2021 in I.A.No.1 of 2020 in W.P.No.24410 of 2020, permitting the petitioners to run the massage centres, subject to maintaining a record in the register to be maintained by the massage centres containing the dates of visits of the customers, their names and verifiable addresses together with the phone numbers, so as to enable the police to contact them on the aspect of the request to the owner/manager/operator of the massage centres to provide for the help from the opposite sex.

Further, it shall be open to any police officer not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector of Police attached to any police station to verify once in a while such records maintained by the massage centres and he shall also be at liberty to verify as to whether the particular customer has solicited any such special service from the massage centre or not. It is also open to the police to take appropriate action depending upon the result of any such verification and also considering the fact that whether the cross massage service provided to the customers is in professional manner or not. Police are also entitled to investigate into crimes, if any, reported against the petitioners.

Petitioners are also directed not to keep the main door of the premises closed, during the working hours. Subject to these conditions, the petitioners may be permitted to carry on the business, duly taking all necessary and proper precautions to ensure that no incident of immoral activity is carried on under the guise of providing whole body massage.”

6. This Court, while passing the interim order dated 26.11.2018, in the present writ petition, placed reliance upon the