HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V.AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.1250 OF 2004 Dt:- 31.08.2012 Between:- P.Venkat Reddy and others … Petitioners and Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, rep. by its Commissioner and others … Respondents This Court made the following:- HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V.AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.1250 OF 2004 ORDER: - Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for respondent Nos.1 and 2. Respondent Nos.3 to 5 though served nobody appears. The grievance of the petitioners is that respondent No.2 is effecting change in name in the property tax register by deleting the name of petitioner No.2 and incorporating the name of respondent Nos.3 and 4 with regard to house property No.8-3-231/A/288 and 289, Sri Krishna Nagar, Yousufguda, Hyderabad. The petitioners has filed several municipal tax receipts and correspondence to substantiate that as per the records maintained by the Municipal Corporation petitioners are shown as the owner of premises in question and the property tax demands are also being raised on the petitioners. It is alleged that at the instance of respondent Nos.3 and 4 the said names are sought to be changed by the Corporation without following the procedure and without notice to the petitioners. No counter affidavits are filed by any of the party- respondents. However, learned counsel for the petitioners states that even as on today the petitioners’ name is continuing in the records of the G.H.M.C. as owner of the aforesaid property. In view of that, therefore, in the event of respondent Nos.3 and 4 or any other person seeking substitution of their names in the place of petitioners’ name in the aforesaid property, the G.H.M.C. is required to conduct the necessary enquiry in accordance with the Rules prescribed for notifying the change in mutation under Rules framed under the H.M.C.Act. In view of the limited relief sought for by the petitioners, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition by the following direction: Respondent Nos.1 and 2 shall issue notice to the petitioners and shall conduct necessary enquiry in accordance with their Rules under H.M.C.Act. In the event of any request received by respondent Nos.1 and 2 seeking change of name (mutation) with regard to the aforesaid property in question either from respondent Nos.3 to 5 or any other person, the Corporation shall pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. The miscellaneous applications, if any, stand dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J 31.08.2012 lmv HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V.AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.1250 OF 2004 31.08.2012 lmv