HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K. LAKSHMAN WRIT PETITION No.7088 OF 2008 ALONG WITH CONTEMPT CASE No.180 OF 2021

COMMON ORDER

Heard Mr. K.Sreenivas, learned counsel for the petitioners in W.P.No.7088 of 2008; Mr. Vedula Venkataramana, learned Senior Counsel representing M/s. Bharadwaj Associates appearing for unofficial respondents No.7 to 25 in W.P.No.7088 of 2008 and petitioners in C.C.No.180 of 2021; and Mr. G.Madhusudan Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation appearing for respondents No.2 to 5 in W.P.No.7088 of 2008 and respondents in C.C.No.180 of 2021.

2. The writ petition is filed to declare the action of 2^nd respondent/GHMC in cancelling the orders of the 3^rd respondent / The Additional Commissioner (Development), GHMC, vide proceedings dated 20.12.2007, as illegal.

3. The petitioners are claiming that they belongs to the lower social strata of the Society and all of them hail from downtrodden sections of the Society. They have been living for more than three decades in Ward No.6 of Block No.6 of Bholakpur Village within the limits of GHMC. The said place is popularly known as ‘Ramaswamy Compound’. It is a slum area. In the meeting dated18.03.1979, 2