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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 10779-10780 OF 2013

(arising out of S.L.P. (Civil) Nos. 13098-13099/2012)

N.ANANTHA REDDY Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

ANSHU KATHURIA & ORS. Respondent(s)

J U D G M E N T

R.M. Lodha, J. :

Leave granted.

2.

The respondent No. 1 herein filed a suit for

declaration and perpetual injunction against the

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (respondent No.

2 herein) and the Assistant City Planner (respondent

No. 3 herein). In the suit, the respondent No. 1

(plaintiff) prayed that notice dated 23.12.2009 issued

under Section 452 of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal

Corporation Act, 1955 be declared as illegal, void and

not legally tenable. It was further prayed that the

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defendants (respondent Nos. 2 and 3 herein) have no

right to interfere with the construction being put up

by the plaintiff. The plaintiff also prayed for

perpetual injunction restraining the two defendants,

their officers/officials/servants from interfering with

the suit scheduled