HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.12234 of 2010 2nd June 2010 Between: Shaik Ahmed Hussain and another … PETITIONER(S) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, represented by its Commissioner, Lower Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad and others … RESPONDENT(S) HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.12234 of 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri Ghanta Rama Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri R.Radhakrishna Reddy, learned Standing Counsel appearing for respondent nos.1 to 3. At their request the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. The relief sought for in this Writ Petition is to declare the action of the respondents in threatening to demolish the Boxes bearing Nos.M.P.R.1 and M.P.L.2 in premises No.20-4-1112, Julukhana, Lad Bazar, Hyderabad, without issuing any notice and without following the due process of law as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioners claim to be tenants of small bunks leased in their favour by its owner M/s.Dera Leasing Construction Company. They claim to be running business of Kids Wear in the said Boxes ever since 1996. It is their case that on 17.05.2010 officials of the respondent-Corporation visited the said premises and asked the petitioners to vacate the said Boxes within three days since they intended to demolish the said premises. It is stated that a similar incident took place on 29.05.2010. They are aggrieved by the fact that they were neither put on notice nor were they given an opportunity of being heard before action was initiated to demolish the Boxes in question. Sri R.Radhakrishna Reddy, learned Standing Counsel, on instructions, would submit that the respondent had neither demolished the said Boxes nor interfered with the petitioners possession of the Boxes in question. Learned Standing Counsel would submit that if any such action is proposed, it would be taken only in accordance with the provisions of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, the Rules and the byelaws made thereunder. I consider it appropriate in such circumstances to dispose of the Writ Petition directing the respondents not to interfere with the petitioners’ possession over the Boxes in question except after putting them on notice and giving them an opportunity of being heard. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. _____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J 2nd June 2010 CVRK Note: Issue copy by 04.06.2010 B/o CVRK