THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA W.P. No. 9542 of 2009 Oral order: The petitioner, which is a society, represented by its Secretary states that after purchasing the property in question under registered sale deed, he obtained permission for construction of Stilt + Ground + 3 Upper Floors from the Regional Deputy Director of Town and Country Planning. Based on the said permission, when he started making constructions, respondent-municipality issued notice dated 26.02.2008 under Sections 228(1) and (2) of the A.P. Municipalities Act, 1965, alleging certain deviations. In response thereto, he submitted his explanation thereto on 10.03.2008. However, the respondent again issued another noticed dated 08.05.2008 making the very same allegations, to which also he submitted explanation, and the respondent upon considering the explanation, dropped further action in the matter. While so, the petitioner states that one Smt. Ch. Anjamma filed writ petition in W.P. No. 20051 of 2008 seeking directions to the respondent herein to take action against the petitioner for making constructions contrary to the sanctioned plan. This court, by order dated 25.11.2008 disposed of that writ petition directing the respondent to hear the petitioner therein and the petitioner herein and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of that order. Now it is the grievance of the petitioner that pursuant to the order dated 25.11.2008 of this court passed in W.P. No. 20051 of 2008, the respondent without issuing any notice and without affording any opportunity of hearing, has issued the impugned order dated 10.02.2009, referring the show cause notice dated 27.01.2008, and requiring the petitioner to remove the deviations made therein within seven days, otherwise, they will remove the same. The learned Standing Counsel for the respondent-municipality admitted that no notice whatsoever was issued to the petitioner before passing the impugned order, which has been passed in pursuance of the orders passed by this Court in the writ petition, referred to above, filed by Smt. Ch. Anjamma, and submitted that the writ petition be disposed of treating the impugned order as show cause notice to the petitioner calling for his explanation. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the respondent, and having regard to the stand taken as indicated above, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with the following directions: The impugned order is treated as show cause notice to the petitioner. The petitioner shall submit his explanation to the show cause notice within ten days from today. On submission of explanation, the respondents shall within three weeks thereafter, after considering the stand of the petitioner as also that of Smt. Ch. Anjamma, consider and pass appropriate orders. Till then, status quo obtaining as on today shall be maintained by the parties. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Dated: 30th April, 2009 KSR