Telangana HC Takes Action On Pet Shop Conditions, Seeks Response in 4 Weeks
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday took on file a copious report on the state of pet shops and gave the authorities four weeks to file a response. A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar was dealing with a PIL filed by the Humane Society International India, complaining that the pet shops had failed to comply with the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act. The petitioner sought a direction to the civic authorities to carry out an awareness campaign to get pet shops and dog breeding centres to register themselves. The report contained various details including separate lists of pet shops with licences and those without permits.
Collector gets a week to correct document:
The Telangana High Court bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar granted the Rangareddy collector one week to remove certain properties from the prohibitory list. The special government pleader said that the land parcel was in the prohibitory list though the revenue entries in the pattedar passbooks were altered. The court was dealing with a contempt appeal filed by the collector. Pratap Jungle Resorts Pvt Ltd had filed a petition before a single judge bench questioning the inclusion of its property at Khanapur, Gandipet, in the prohibitory list. The single judge declared that the land was prima facie not government-owned. When the government failed to make the relevant corrections, the single judge sentenced the collector to simple imprisonment of four weeks and a fine of Rs 2,000.
Father challenges change of name of the child:
Justice T. Vinod Kumar of the Telangana High Court ordered notice to civic authorities for allegedly altering the name of a person in the birth certificate without the consent of the father. The judge was hearing a writ plea filed by P. Durga Rao, advocate, who complained that the authorities at the instance of his estranged wife and without notice to him had altered the name of the child. The name was altered both in the register maintained for births and in the child's birth certificate.
Direction to GHMC on AWARE Global Cancer Hospital:
Justice T. Vinod Kumar of the Telangana High Court on Tuesday set aside an order of the GHMC directing the management of Aware Global Hospital to stop the ongoing alleged illegal construction and to demolish the structures that had come up by alleged encroachment in public space in Karmanghat. The petitioner complained that the GHMC had not considered its reply. Senior counsel for the petitioner said that the complaint of encroachment and illegal construction emanated from a private respondent, Aella Krishna Reddy, against whom the petitioner had filed multiple criminal cases under the Negotiable Instruments Act. Senior counsel said that the GHMC had failed to see that there was no ongoing construction, the structures were over two decades old and that it had collected municipal tax. The petitioner owns and the land and the allegation of encroachment is misconceived, he said.
Return retailer deposit HC to RTC:
A two-judge bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar refused to set aside an order of the TSRTC qua a trader who had had won a bid to run a store at the Karimnagar bus station. The petitioner, S.K. Rahim, intended to set up his outlet at Platform 19, which the RTC disallowed. It forfeited the earnest money deposit (EMD) on the ground that the petitioner had failed to open the stall as required. On Rahim’s petition, a single judge directed the RTC to return the EMD with 9 per cent interest. The RTC approached the division bench, which faulted the manner in which the forfeiture was affected. The bench saw no reason to interfere with the order of the single judge but pegged down the interest rate to 6 per cent. The bench pointed out the tender did not specify the place of the outlet.
