IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.TUKARAMJI WRIT PETITION No.41843 OF 2018

08^th December, 2025 Between:

M/s. Runeecha Kalamandir … Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep., by its Principal Secretary, Home (Cinemas), Secretariat, Hyderabad and two others.

… Respondents

O R D E R:

This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India seeking the following relief/s:-

“…to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the seizure of the petitioner Theatre by the 3^rd respondent under Lr.C. No.102/SI-G2/20018 dated 13.11.2018 as illegal, null, void and arbitrary ….”

petition has been filed challenging the action of the Sub-Inspector of Police, Karepally Police Station (respondent No. 3), in seizing the petitioner’s theatre, and seeking appropriate directions from this Court. It is submitted that, having regard to the settled legal position laid down in P. Kullaiah Swamy v. Sub-Inspector of Police, Jammalamadugu Police Station, Cuddapah and another [2003 (1) ALD (Crl.) 676 (A.P.)], this Court, by way of interim direction, had suspended the impugned order o