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The Telangana High Court connected Monday issued notices to the State authorities successful 2 writ petitions challenging the Telangana Municipalities (Amendment) Act-2026 and the amendments made to the Telangana Municipalities Act-2019 paving mode for reconstitution of the erstwhile Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation into 3 abstracted corporations.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, aft proceeding the writ petitions, directed the authorities to record antagonistic affidavits explaining their basal connected the contentions raised by the petitioners. Businessmen R. Laxman and Rajamani Raju, who filed the 2 abstracted pleas, contended that the amendments brought successful by the State authorities were unconstitutional and violative of the Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution.
According to them, the alteration oregon enlargement of the ‘city’ nether the Municipalities Act-1955 should beryllium done lone done a notification-based process successful consultation with the corporation. This was to guarantee transparency, nationalist information and organization consultation. However, the caller GHMC Act-2026 altered the statutory equilibrium by expanding the conceptual scope of the ‘city’, the petitioners said.
The caller Act besides removed the mandatory request of erstwhile work of the modifications to beryllium made to the limits of the metropolis which hitherto operated arsenic a law safeguard against unilaterally altering the municipal limits. The part seat headed by the Chief Justice directed the authorities to record antagonistic affidavits wrong 4 weeks.
