HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.7932 OF 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri Malleswara Rao Kallu, Learned Counsel for the petitioners and Sri R.Ramachandra Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and, at their request, the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. The petitioners claim to be the owners and to be in peaceful possession of premises bearing Nos.5-5-173/1 and 5-5-173/1/1 admeasuring 175 sq. yards each at Ghousepura, Omnagar, Darussalam, Hyderabad; and to have got the said houses registered under release deed dated 11.12.2001. As the petitioners intended to construct a building in the said premises, by removing the existing structures, they claim to have approached the respondents with all necessary documents but their application was not received on the sole ground that they did not enclose a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the District Collector/Joint Collector. In more or less similar circumstances, this Court, in Hyderabad Potteries Private Limited v. Collector, Hyderabad[1] and Adge Nagaraju (judgment in WP.No.26366 of 2009 dated 03.12.2009), held that a local authority cannot insist on production of ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the District Collector/Joint Collector. Following the said judgments, the respondents are directed to receive and process the application of the petitioners for construction of the building without insisting on production of a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the District Collector/Joint Collector. The respondents, on receipt of the application, shall take further action strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, the rules and the building bye-laws made thereunder and, only if the application seeking permission for construction satisfies the conditions stipulated thereunder, would they be entitled for grant of permission for construction of the building in question. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date:09.04.2010 Usd [1] 2001(3) ALD 600