No parking fee in stand-alone cinema theatres: HC

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The Telangana High Court passed an interim bid temporarily suspending GO Ms. No. 121 permitting owners of stand-alone theatres to cod the parking interest from persons parking vehicles connected their premises. 

Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar passed the bid aft proceeding a writ petition challenging the GO filed by a instrumentality pupil Ramavath Prem Kumar from Hayathngar of Rangareddy district. The justice instructed the Principal Secretary of Municipal Administration and Urban Development to convey to owners of stand-alone cinema theatres to guarantee that parking interest was not collected from persons parking vehicles connected theatre premises, if they nutrient the movie tickets. 

The justice observed that prima facie the GO appeared to beryllium successful contravention of Section 176 (6) of the Telangana Municipalities Act-2019. The GO was besides successful usurpation of the instrumentality laid down by the Andhra Pradesh High Court successful 2023, the justice said. The justice noted that contempt being fixed capable time, the respondents successful the petition did not record their antagonistic affidavits successful the writ petition. 

Published - March 11, 2026 09:43 p.m. IST

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