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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT

HYDERABAD

HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY

WP.No.11483 of 2019

Dated:05.05.2026

Between:

M/s Grand Estates, regd. partnership

Firm, Secunderabad, reptd., by its

Managing Partner-J.Devender Rao

…Petitioner

And

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal

Corporation, reptd by its Commissioner,

and others.

…Respondents

ORDER

This Writ Petition is filed to issue a writ of Mandamus, declaring Notice

No.1/CI8/07179/2018/448, dated 21.05.2019, issued by respondent No.1 as

illegal, arbitrary and abuse of Section 450 of GHMC Act,1955 and to set aside

the same.

2. Heard Sri E.Madan Mohan Rao, learned senior counsel for the petitioner,

Sri G.Madhusudhan Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for respondent Nos.1

and 2 and Sri P.Bhaskar, learned counsel for respondent Nos.4 to 6.

3. The brief facts of the case as averred in the writ petition are that the

petitioner-a registered partnership firm purchased the property bearing Door

No.10-3-32/9/3/A, Shenoy Nursing Home adjacent lane, Addagutta Slum, East

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Maredpally, Secunderabad, from one Praveen Kumar and others under

registered sale deed bearing document No.201 of 1999, dated 05.08.1997;

thereafter, the title was transferred in the name of petitioner-firm in municipal

records, as per orders, dated 28.08.1998; that when respondent Nos.4 to 6

started to interfere with the possession of the petitioner over the subject

property, the latter filed OS.No.91 of 2002 on the file of I Junior Civil Judge,

City Civil Court, Secunderabad and the same was decreed ex parte on

27.11.2002, restraining the defendants therein, i.e., respondent Nos.4 to 6 from

interfering with the possession of the petitioner; that later, when one

C.Badrinath Yadav, claiming through respondent Nos.4 to 6, tried to interfere

with the possession of the petitioner, the petitioner again filed OS.No.1263 of

2007 on the file of the XVII Junior Civil Judge, Secunderabad, and the said

suit was decreed on 24.03.2008. While so, basing upon representation made by

respondent Nos.4 to 6, the GHMC authorities issued notice under Sections

452(1) and 461(1) of the GHMC Act, 1955, challenging which, the petitioner

filed OS.No.371/2016, wherein an interim order dated 28.06.2016 was passed

directing both the parties to maintain status quo.

3.1. It is further stated that earlier, when petitioner approached the GHMC

authorities for the construction permission in 1998, the same had been rejected

on 22.07.1998 on the ground that the said land is Government land and

subsequently, the Government filed Land Grabbing Case No.167/1998 which

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stood dismissed. There upon, the petitioner applied for construction permission

under Sections 428 and 433 of the GHMC Act and the same was granted vide

Permit No.1/C29/12169/2018, dated 11.04.2018, but, on complaint given by

respondent Nos.4 to 6, respondent No.1 issued Notice, vide No. 1/C29/12169/

2018, dated 21.05.2019, under Section 450 of the GHMC Act, directing the

petitioner to give explanation as to why the permission should not be cancelled

on the ground of misrepresentation and suppression of facts. Aggrieved by the

said notice, this writ petition is filed.

4. Learned senior counsel for petitioner submitted that prior to purchase of

subject property by the petitioner, the Office of the Additional Commissioner,

Municipal Corporation of Secunderabad Division, issued proceedings

No.PA/26/C-11/Tax/97, dated 14.05.1997, fixing the tax of the subject property;

that after purchase, the petitioner applied for mutation and the subject property

was mutated in favour of petitioner vide proceedings No.836/Tax/C10/98, dated

28.8.1998 and since then the petitioner has been paying property tax.

4.1. Learned senior counsel for petitioner further submitted that without

verifying the records since the year 1997, the orders of the competent civil

Courts in the suits, as mentioned in the writ affidavit, and despite granting

construction permission upon verifying the