HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. RAMALINGESWARA RAO WRIT PETITION No.27404 of 2006 Date: March 27, 2014 Between: M. Ramesh Reddy. … Petitioner And 1. The Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Warangal, Warangal District & another. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. RAMALINGESWARA RAO WRIT PETITION No.27404 of 2006 O R D E R: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and none appeared for the respondents. 2. Petitioner is the absolute owner and possessor of H.No.5- 10-16, situated at Kishanpura, Nayeemnagar, Hanamkonda, Warangal District. Consequent to the death of the father of the petitioner on 02.06.1999, the property devolved on him and his mother. His mother executed a gift deed bequeathing her half share in his favour by registered gift deed dated 21.10.2005. He paid property tax to the first respondent Corporation since 1999 till the assessment year 2006-2007. He made application on 14.11.2006 for mutation of his name in the property tax registers of the first respondent Corporation and it was followed by a reminder on 02.12.2006. On the said application, the impugned notice was issued on 05.12.2006 stating that the application of the petitioner was rejected due to pendency of court case. 3. It appears that the said order was passed basing on the report dated 21.11.2006 of the Revenue Inspector. The learned counsel for the petitioner states that the copy of the report of the Revenue Inspector dated 21.11.2006 was not furnished to him and pendency of court case is not one of the considerations for rejecting the mutation. The first respondent should have gone by the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Register of Transfer of Ownership of properties in the Assessment Book) Rules, 1965, while dealing with the request of the petitioner for mutation of his name. 4. Since the impugned notice is not issued in accordance with the said rules, the same is set aside and the first respondent is directed to consider the matter afresh in accordance with law and pass appropriate orders thereon after issuing notice to the petitioner as well as to any interested party within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 5. The writ petition is accordingly allowed. Pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stand dismissed in consequence. No costs. ________________________________ A. RAMALINGESWARA RAO, J Date: March 27, 2014 BSB HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. RAMALINGESWARA RAO 36 WRIT PETITION No.27404 of 2006 Date: March 27, 2014 BSB