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The Telangana High Court connected Thursday issued notices to the Central and the State governments successful a writ petition challenging the trifurcation of the erstwhile Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, contending it was successful struggle with a circular connected to 2027 census issued by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
The Additional Solicitor General of India, appearing for some the Census Commissioner and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, on with the Advocate General, appearing for the State government, sought 3 weeks of clip to record their antagonistic affidavits. The Bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, proceeding the plea, gave clip of 1 week to reply to the antagonistic affidavits.
The petitioner D. Guruva Reddy, a businessman, assailed the GO Ms no. 55 done which the State authorities carved 2 caller municipal corporations retired of the existing GHMC by merging immoderate surrounding municipalities, maintaining that it was against the provisions of the Census Act 1948-read with Census Rules-1990. According to the petitioner, the Census Commissioner successful a notificiation issued connected June 16 of 2025 declared the notation day for the census arsenic March 1, 2027.
In different notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, it was directed to implicit location listing operations betwixt April 1 and September 30 of 2026. The Union Government besides said the Directorates of Census Operations were required to nonstop each jurisdictional changes arsenic connected July 1 of 2025. The trifurcation of the GHMC was successful usurpation of the rules prescribed for the Census, the petitioner contended.
