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2025 DIGILAW 758 (TS)

Akshaya Developer v. State of Telangana

2025-06-09

B.VIJAYSEN REDDY

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ORDER : B. VIJAYSEN REDDY The writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking to call for the records and set aside the impugned short fall letter in File No.005803/BP/HMDA/1327/MED/2024 dated 21.09.2024 issued by respondent No.2 in respect of the construction of residential building consisting of two (2) Cellar + one (1) Ground + five (5) Upper floors in Plot No.NA admeasuring 8377.27 square meters in Survey Nos.330P and 333P situated at Dommara Pochampalle Village, Dundigal Gandi-Maisamma Mandal, Medchal- Malkajgiri District, as the same being illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the provisions of the Telangana State Building Permission and Self Certification System, 2020 (for short ‘TG-bPASS’ Act’) and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority Act 2008 (for short ‘HMDA Act), and consequently direct the respondent authorities to issue fee intimation letter/work commencement letter under Section 20(3) of the HMDA Act forthwith. 2. Heard Mr. S. Sridhar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. V. Narsimha Goud, learned standing counsel for HMDA, appearing for respondent Nos.2 and 3, and Mr. Putta Krishna Reddy, learned standing counsel for Municipalities, appearing for respondent No.4. 3. It is submitted that one Mr. Matkala Yadaiah S/o. late Mallaiah Goud was the owner of the agricultural land admeasuring Acs.2-17 guntas in Survey No.330 situated at Dommerapochampally Village, Gandimaisamma Mandal, then Medchal District, by virtue of gift settlement deed executed by his mother and two sisters vide document No.4764 of 2017 dated 29.07.2017. Thereafter, Mr. M. Yadaiah, got his name recorded in revenue records and he was issued e-pattadar passbook, and his name was also recorded in Dharani portal as pattadar. 4. It is submitted that due to efflux of time, the nature of land got converted from agricultural to non-agricultural land due to rapid urbanization and construction of Outer Ring Road (ORR) around the subject property. The said Mr. M. Yadaiah applied for conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural land before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Malkajgiri Division (RDO). The RDO has accorded permission vide proceedings No.L/294/2017 dated 15.12.2017. Later, the petitioner - firm purchased an extent of land admeasuring 2057 square yards out of Acs.2-17 guntas in Survey No.330 and 1210 square yards out of 3630 square yards in Survey No.333/A, totaling to 3267 square yards from Mr. M. Yadaiah and his two (2) sisters vide registered sale deed bearing document No.12205 of 2021 dated 16.08.2021. Mr. Later, the petitioner - firm purchased an extent of land admeasuring 2057 square yards out of Acs.2-17 guntas in Survey No.330 and 1210 square yards out of 3630 square yards in Survey No.333/A, totaling to 3267 square yards from Mr. M. Yadaiah and his two (2) sisters vide registered sale deed bearing document No.12205 of 2021 dated 16.08.2021. Mr. M. Yadaiah has exchanged his remaining extent of land in Survey No.330 under an exchange deed bearing document No.10754 of 2021 dated 17.07.2021 with Sri Ganapathy Sachitandanda Avadhoota Datta Peetha Trust for an extent of 3630 square yards or 30 guntas. 5. It is submitted that Mr. M. Yadaiah executed a registered Development Agreement-cum-General Power of Attorney vide document No.12204 of 2021 dated 16.08.2021 in favour of the petitioner - firm for the entire extent of land and from then the petitioner - firm is in peaceful possession of the subject land. It is submitted that respondent Nos.2 and 3 authorities grant only technical approval and respondent No.4 grants building permission based on such technical approval. However, the petitioner applied for grant of technical approval and building permission with respondent No.3. Respondent No.3 did not consider both the applications for the reason that there is no approach road, and the same is not captured in the master plan, and advised petitioner to approach Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited for obtaining No Objection Certificate (for short ‘NOC’) for the existing access from ORR service road to the said site. Aggrieved by the action of respondent authorities in not granting building permission, the petitioner filed W.P. No.1216 of 2024, which was disposed of by this Court by this order dated 18.03.2024 with the following directions: “In the light of the above discussion, the rejection/non-consideration of the application submitted by the petitioner for grant of building permission by adopting a hyper-technical approach in the considered view of this Court only goes to show the non-application of mind on the part of 2 nd respondent authority. Thus, this Court is of the view that the respondent No.7 authority should be directed to reconsider the building application submitted by the petitioner for grant of building permission by taking into consideration the existence of old road as access to the service road subject to the petitioner complying with the other short fall objections if any. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petitions are disposed of. No Costs. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petitions are disposed of. No Costs. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this writ petition shall stand closed. No order as to costs.” 6. It is submitted that pursuant to the above order, the petitioner again applied for building permission vide application No.005803/BP/HMDA/1327/MED/2024 dated 01.06.2024. As the respondents did not process his application, the contempt case in C.C. No.1560 of 2024 was filed by the petitioner, wherein, Form-I Notice was issued to respondent Nos.2 and 3 therein and for extraneous consideration, impugned short fall notice was issued. Respondent Nos.2 and 3 also preferred an appeal challenging the order dated 18.03.2024 in W.P. No.1216 of 2024 in W.A. No.1094 of 2024 and the same was dismissed by this Court by the judgment dated 12.09.2024. 7. It is submitted that under the provisions of TG-bPASS Act the authorities on receipt of online application for building permission should issue a short fall notice within a period of ten (10) days and the building permission must be sanction within ninety (90) days as per Section 20(3) of the HMDA Act. If no order of rejection is passed, there is provision under the TG-bPASS Act by which the building permission is deemed to have been granted. 8. Respondent Nos.2 and 3 filed counter affidavit contending that short fall letter has been issued to the petitioner as per the rules in force. The building proposals submitted by the petitioner were scrutinized in accordance with G.O. Ms.No.168 MA & UD dated 07.04.2012 and G.O. Ms.No.470 MA & UD dated 09.07.2008. Petitioner has not submitted all requisite documents which are required for this proposal, such as, NOC from Irrigation and Revenue Department as there is water body within 200 meters. 9. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that insistence of NOC from the Revenue Department is not mandatory and the same is contrary to the judgment of this Court in Hyderabad Potteries Private Limited v. Collector, Hyderabad , [ 2001 (3) ALD 600 ] 10. In view of the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner about the short fall remarks the only point which needs to be considered by this Court is whether respondent No.2 can insist for NOC from the Revenue Department. It has been held in Hyderabad Potteries Private Limited’s case (supra) that NOC from Revenue Department cannot be insisted for the purpose of building permission. 11. It has been held in Hyderabad Potteries Private Limited’s case (supra) that NOC from Revenue Department cannot be insisted for the purpose of building permission. 11. In the light of the above discussion, the impugned short fall letter in File No.005803/BP/HMDA/1327/MED/2024 dated 21.09.2024 issued by respondent No.2 to the extent of insisting the petitioner to produce NOC from the Revenue Department is set aside. In so far as, other short falls remarks are concerned, petitioner shall comply with the same. 12. With the above observations, the writ petition is allowed in part. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous applications, if any, pending in the writ petition stand closed.