HC directs officials to curb unauthorised construction activity there
Telangana High Court on Thursday instructed the Telangana State Housing Board (TSHB) authorities and the Commissioner Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to conduct a joint inspection looking out for illegal structures in Kukatpally Housing Board Colony Phase-III.
If any illegal structures were found, the Housing Board officials and GHMC should immediately serve notices to the persons concerned calling for their explanation, the HC said. Officers of the two departments should also restrain private persons from undertaking any unauthorised construction activity there.
The directions were issued by a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy while hearing a PIL petition filed by a non-governmental organisation called Community Organisation for People’s Emancipation. The NGO had submitted repeated representations to the authorities over illegal buildings by private persons comin