IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SAM KOSHY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NARSING RAO NANDIKONDA CONTEMPT APPEAL No.7 of 2025 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 20.02.2026 Between :

Sri Aravind Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, State of Telangana, Secretariat, Hyderabad and another.

…Petitioners AND S. Ram Reddy, S/o. Late S. Ram Reddy, Indian, Aged about 62 years, Occ: Business, R/o. H.No.83684/1/15, Road No.12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

…Respondent

JUDGMENT:

(per the Hon’ble Sri Justice P. Sam Koshy)

Heard Mr. Pottigari Sridhar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners; and Mr. K.Durga Prasad, learned counsel for the respondent.

2. The present appeal is one which has been filed by the petitioners assailing the order dated 09.06.2025, in C.C.No.1043 of

2023, passed by the learned Single Bench of this Court.

3. The petitioners herein are the contemnors in C.C.No.1043 of

2023.

4. For proper understanding of the dispute, it would be relevant at this juncture to take note of the operative part of the order passed by the learned Single Bench in C.C.No.1043 of 2023. For ready reference, paragraph No.8 i.e. the operative part of C.C.No.1043 of 2023 is reproduced hereunder, viz., “8. For the aforesaid reasons, this Contempt Case is disposed of directing the respondents to execute conveyance deed in terms of the orders dated 16.02.2023 passed by this Court in W.P.No.1836/2020 within a period of three (3) months from the date of receipt of copy of this order and a copy of the same shall be filed before the Registry, failing which, the respondent Nos.1 and 2 shall suffer simple imprisonment for a period of two(2) weeks and to pay fine of Rs.1,000/- (Rupees one thousand) each, in default to suffer simple imprisonment for a period of one(1) week.”

5. The facts of the case are that the writ petitioner had originally filed a writ petition which was registered as W.P.No.1836 of 2020, wherein as an interim measure on 16.02.2023, the learned Single Bench had passed the following order:

“There shall be interim direction to respondent No.2 to register the plot No.181 admeasuring 666.67 sq.yards as per the allotment made on 31.10.2016 duly relaxing the conditions for the registration as applicable under the scheme within a period of four (04) weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order. Respondent No.2 is further directed to file status report on the registration of the plot No.181 by the next date of hearing. List on

16.03.2023.”

6. Admittedly, the respondents have not complied with the interim directions so granted on 16.02.2023. Upon issuance of notice, the respondents have entered appearance and filed an application vide I.A.No.1 of 2023, on 30.10.2023, seeking for modification of the order dated 16.02.2023. The said modification application was duly served upon the writ petitioner and the matter was pending consideration.

7. It is pertinent to mention that the modification application was filed taking into consideration the fact that in respect of the subject property situated at Plot No.181 there was another writ petition viz., W.P.No.9700 of 2017, filed by one Mr. Giri Venu Gopal, much before the writ petitioner in the present case had filed the writ petition. Another pertinent fact which needs to be appreciated is that in W.P.No.9700 of 2017, filed by Mr. Giri Venu Gopal, there was already an interim order granted by the learned Single Bench of this Court on 20.03.2017. The interim order prayed for and the interim order granted in the said writ petition is also for ready reference reproduced hereunder, viz., “Petition under Section 151 of C.P.C. praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in the W.P. the High Court may be pleased to issue interim directions to the respondents not to allot land of 401 square yards in the HMDA layout in survey no. 454 at Uppal-bhagat village between the Hindustan Petrol bunk and Mahendra motors, of Ghatk