HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.8811 of 2010 20th April 2010 Between: Ved Prakash … PETITIONER(S) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), rep. by its Commissioner, Lower Tank Bund, Hyderabad and another … RESPONDENT(S) THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.8811 OF 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri R. Chandrashekar Reddy, Learned Counsel for the petitioner and Sri R. Ramachandra Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents. At their request the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. The petitioner questions the action of the respondents in issuing a notice under Section 636 of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as – ‘the Act’), straightway on 17.04.2010 without a prior notice being issued under Section 452 of the Act. Sri R. Chandrashekar Reddy, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, would rely on a Division Bench judgment of this Court in Ved Electrical Stores v. Additional Commissioner, MCH[1] in this regard. Sri R. Ramachandra Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel, on instructions, would submit that the notice under Section 636 of the Act was erroneously issued even though no notice under Section 452 of the Act preceded it. On this sole ground, the impugned notice, issued under Section 636 of the Act, is quashed. Needless to state that this order shall not preclude the respondents from issuing a notice under Section 452 of the Act, or any other statutory provision, and thereafter take action in accordance with law. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. ______________________________ 20.04.2010 RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J CVRK/MRKR [1] 2003(2) ALT 65