JUDGMENT :

P.S. MISHRA, C.J.:— Two petitions addressed to the Chief Justice of the Court were clubbed and treated as a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India being Writ Petition No. 25835 of 1996. The first petition in Writ Petition No. 25835 of 1996 is by the residents of the locality of Indira Park in the lower Tank Bund area in Hyderabad and the second is by the Advocates of City Civil Court. In both the petitions, objections are raised against the proposed cremation of the body of Dr. M. Chenna Reddy, former Chief Minister of the State and the Governor of Tamil Nadu, who expired on 2-12-1996. On 3-12-1996, when the matter was taken up by a Bench of this Court and it was noticed that cremation was fixed for 4-12-1996, the Court issued notice to the learned Advocate General, who filed a memo answering the various queries made by the Court. Ordering, however, the petition after the memo filed by the learned Advocate General, the Court postponed final disposal, awaiting response to its directions which were/are as follows:

“We direct the Respondents 1 and 3 immediately consider the objections raised in the two petitions in the background of the fact and law discussed