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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD

THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. SHRAVAN KUMAR

W.P. No.2594 of 2026

Date: 29.01.2026

Between:

Smt.Kothapelli Kavya

… Petitioner

And

The State of Telangana,

Represented by its Principal Secretary,

Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department,

Secretariat, Hyderabad and Four others.

… Respondents

ORDER

Questioning the rejection order dated 27.01.2026 passed by the

respondent No.5, Municipal Commissioner, Adilabad Municipality,

in respect of representation dated 17.01.2026 submitted by the

petitioner for inclusion of petitioner’s name in the Adilabad

Municipality Electoral Rolls, petitioner filed the present writ petition

with a consequential prayer to direct the respondent No.5 to include

the petitioner’s name in the Electoral Roll of Ward No.6 of Adilabad

Municipality.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the

petitioner is the citizen of India and a registered elector bearing EPIC

No.TUY0741496 and was residing at Kachkanti village, Adilabad Rural

Mandal, from where she was elected as a Ward Member.

Due to marriage and lawful change of residence, she sought shifting of

electoral particulars and her name was recorded by the Election

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Commission of India however her name was not mapped to Ward No.6

in the municipal electoral roll. Thereafter, considering the

representation dated 17.01.2026 of the petitioner, respondent No.5

passed impugned rejection order on the ground that the petitioner

Form-8 application dated 09.01.2026 was filed after the qualifying

date of 01.10.2025. Challenging the same, petitioner filed the present

writ petition.

3. On the other hand, learned Government Pleader appearing for

the respondents has placed a copy of the instructions of the

respondent No.5 wherein it is stated that in terms of Section 195-A of

Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019, the Assembly Constituency

Electoral Rolls published by the Election Commission of India under

the Representation of Peoples Act, 1950 with reference to the

qualifying dated 01.10.2025 as updated upto 15.11.2025 under

Section 22 and 23 of Representation of Peoples Act, 1950 is adopted

by the State Election Commissioner, for preparation and publication

of Ward-wise electoral rolls of the Urban Local Bodies. Further,

with reference to the qualifying date as on 01.10.2025, the mapping of

voters in the respective Divisions/Ward is carried out by the

Municipal Commissioners strictly in accordance with the delimitation

of the Wards. It is further stated that on verification, name of the

petitioner was not mapped and not found in Ward No.6 of Adilabad

Municipality voter list and her serial number in the Assembly

Constituency of ECI finds place at Part No.260 Sl.No.761. The request

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for inclusion of the name in the voters list of the Municipalities

electoral rolls are considered in terms of Section 195-A of the

Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019. In view of the above, the request

of the petitioner for inclusion of her name in the voters list of Ward

No.6 of Adilabad Municipality is not acceptable at this stage as the

name of the petitioner is not updated in the official website of Chief

Electoral Officer of the State of Telangana, as on qualifying date of

01.10.2025 which is updated upto 15.11.2025.

The learned Government Pleader would further submit that

based on the record, the petitioner has participated in the

Parliamentary elections in Ward No.6 from Adilabad Rural at

Kachkanti village Grampanchayat as the Election Commissioner of

India had already issued the Voter Identification Card, which was

downloaded by the petitioner on 16.01.2026. Based on the records

updated by the Electoral Registration Officer, name of petitioner was

not uploaded as on the cut off date i.e. 01.10.2025 however,

the petitioner may exercise her voting rights with the updated records

for future elections.

In that view of the matter, recording the submissions made by

the learned counsel on either side, th