Hyderabad High Court stays building regularisation

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Telangana State government not to regularise any illegal constructions under the Building Regularisation Scheme till further orders.

The court allowed the GHMC to receive applications for regularisation on the condition that no orders would be passed regularising illegal structures. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice S.V. Bhatt was dealing with a petition by the Forum for Good Governance, represented by its secretary M. Padmanabha Reddy, challenging a GO issued on October 31, 2015, amending Section 455-AA of the GHMC Act, 1955, for the purpose of regularising illegal constructions made within the territorial jurisdiction of the GHMC.

Mr Sivaraju Srinivas, counsel appearing for the petitioner, said that the erstwhile AP government in 2007 had amended the GHMC Act by incorporating Section 455-AA, imposing a condition that only buildings constructed till the date of commencement of Act No. 9 of 2008, being 15.12.2007, may be regularised as a one-time measure.