IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V.SHRAVAN KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.9802 of 2026 DATE OF ORDER: 01.04.2026 Between:

Mula Venkat Ravinder Reddy ...Petitioner AND The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad & 8 others ...Respondents

ORDER:

This writ petition is filed questioning the action of respondent Nos.1 to 8 in not taking any action against respondent No.9 for not removing the unauthorized construction of G+2 upper floors in an extent of 235 square yards falling in Sy.No.213 made by the 9^th respondent within FTL of Oora Kunta situated at Teegalaguttapalli Village, Karimnagar Rural and Mandal, Karimnagar District even after issuing show cause notice dated 13.10.2025. A consequential prayer is sought to direct respondent Nos.1 to 8 to take action against respondent No.9 to demolish the structure, which is illegally constructed at the subject property.

2. Brief facts of the case as stated are respondent No.9 had unauthorizedly constructed G+2 upper floors in an extent of 235 square yards falling in Sy.No.213 within FTL of Oora Kunta Cheruvu (water body) situated at Teegalaguttapalli Village, Karimnagar Rural and Mandal, Karimnagar District (hereinafter referred as ‘subject property’) even after issuing show cause notice dated 13.10.2025. Aggrieved by the action of respondent No.9, the petitioner made several representations to the respondent authorities regarding unauthorized construction of respondent No.9 over the subject property. But till date, the said representations are not acted upon by the respondent authorities. As such, the present writ petition is filed.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that since petitioner’s representations are still pending for consideration, the respondent authorities may be directed to consider the same and take action in a time bound period.

4. On the other hand, Mr. K. Siddarth Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for Karimnagar Municipal Corporation appearing on behalf of respondent Nos.2 and 3 would submit that the subject property was constructed within the FTL of Oora Kunta as such a notice has already been issued to respondent No.9 pursuant to the petitioner’s representation and appropriate action would be taken in due course of time.

5. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing for respondent Nos.2 and 3 and perused the material made available on the record.

6. Since this Court, time and again, directed the Municipal Authorities to initiate action against the illegal constructions by following due process of law, it is noticed that the authorities are failing to initiate action against the illegal constructions. However, in some of the cases, authorities are issuing statutory notices and thereafter not proceeding further to initiate further course of action unless writ petitions are filed for not considering complaints/

representations made to civic authorities.

7. It is not out of place to mention Section 7(6) of the Telangana State Building Permission Approval and Self Certification System (TS- bPASS) Act, 2020 (for short ‘the TG-bPASS Act’) and Section 174(5) of the Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019 encourages citizens to put on notice to the Civic Authorities regarding unauthorized constructions.

Section 7(6) of the TG-bPASS Act is extracted for reference.

“7. Approval of Building Permissions-

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(6) Citizens shall be encouraged to bring to the notice of Municipality and District Collector cases where unauthorized construction or construction in violation of or in excess of permissions, in the manner prescribed. The identity of such informers shall be kept confidential. All such cases shall be examined within a week from such information and appropriate action initiated. The information shall be incentivized in all such cases where the information, furnished by him is found to be correct.”

Section 174(5)