THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B. VIJAYSEN REDDY WRIT PETITION No.5199 OF 2025

ORDER :

Notice vide Lr.Roc.No.410880/2022/K2 dated 24.06.2024 issued by respondent No.4 - the Commissioner, Ieeja Municipality, Ieeja, Jogulamba Gadwal District, invoking the power under Section 180(1) of the Telangana Municipalities Act 2019, to the petitioners by levying a penalty of Rs.37,60,152/- (Rupees thirty seven lakhs sixty thousand and one hundred and fifty two only) for illegal construction of building in Survey No.908 of Ieeja Town and Municipality, Jogulamba-Gadwal District, is challenged in this writ petition as being illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners also sought a consequential relief to direct respondent No.4 to assess the subject building for house tax under the provisions of the Telangana Municipalities Act 2019.

2.1. It is stated that the petitioners are owners of the land admeasuring Acs.2-00 (now converted into plots) in Survey No.908 situated at Ieeja Town and Municipality, Jogulamba-Gadwal District. The said property was divided into plots and partitioned among the petitioners and thereafter applications for grant of individual building permissions have been made. However, as the pe