Telangana High Court
Election Duties Of Staff Can't Excuse Delay In Filing Appeal: Telangana High Court Slams Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
The Telangana High Court has dismissed two appeals by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) against an order setting aside its revocation of Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) permissions for two plots, after refusing to condone delays of 820 and 794 days in filing the appeals. The Court also found little prima facie merit in GHMC's allegation that the plot owners' vendor...
Children Of Central Govt Employees Transferred Outside Telangana Entitled To 'Local Candidate' Benefit For MBBS Admissions: High Court
The Telangana High Court has directed that children of Central Government, Central Government Corporations and Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) employees who studied outside State due to their parent's posting, must be given benefit of local candidature for medical and dental admissions on same terms as children of State Government employees. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin held that, pending a formal amendment, the proviso to...
Every Medical Error Not Criminal Negligence: Telangana High Court Quashes FIR Against Diagnostic Staff For Issuing False Positive Report
While quashing FIR against four staff members of a diagnostic centre for issuing an allegedly false positive Hepatitis B report to a woman before her hernia surgery, the Telangana High Court said that not criminal law cannot be invoked to punish every instance of professional negligence. In doing so the court held that mere inadvertence, an error of judgment, or a lapse in the exercise of due care cannot, by themselves, constitute an offence under Section 336 (Act endangering life or...
Completion Of Land Acquisition Doesn't Extinguish Duty To Determine Rehabilitation Benefits Of Affected Families: Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court has held that the statutory obligation to identify affected families and determine their Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) entitlements does not end merely because land acquisition proceedings have been completed and possession has been taken. The Court said that this obligation is owed individually to every affected family and can be discharged even...
Telangana High Court Upholds CRPF Constable's Termination On Depression Diagnosis, Cites Risk From Access To Firearms
The Telangana High Court has upheld the termination of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable who was diagnosed with depression and declared medically unfit for basic training and service. It noted that the Review Medical Board had considered the inherent stress of CRPF training and the risk arising from easy access to firearms before recommending his termination. Justice Pulla...
Public Purpose Cannot Justify Taking Private Land Without Lawful Acquisition Or Compensation: Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court has held that a public authority cannot indefinitely retain private property without sanction of law merely because the land has already been utilised for a public purpose. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 131]The Court directed the State to acquire a private land it had used for constructing the Area Hospital at Bhongir and pay compensation to the landowners, after finding that...
Telangana High Court Directs Police To File Final Reports In Unnatural Death Cases Before Judicial Magistrate, Not Executive Magistrate
The Telangana High Court has held that where the police conduct an investigation into an unnatural or accidental death under Section 174 CrPC, the final report must be filed before the jurisdictional Judicial Magistrate of First Class and not before an Executive Magistrate. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 130]The Court further held that the person who first gave information regarding the death must...
Orders Against State Bind All Its Departments, Officers Even If Not Named As Parties To Proceedings: Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court has held that an order passed against the State binds all its departments, instrumentalities, agencies and officers, even if a particular department was not specifically made a party to the earlier proceedings. The Court said that the State is one juristic entity and cannot use different departments to repeatedly raise issues which have already been concluded against...
Telangana High Court Upholds Cancellation Of Patanjali Foods' Palm Oil Factory Zone Over Failure To Set Up Processing Unit
The Telangana High Court has upheld the State Government's decision to cancel the Suryapet oil palm factory zone allotted to Patanjali Foods Limited, finding that the company failed to establish a processing unit within the stipulated period despite repeated opportunities. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 128]The Court also noted its unsatisfactory performance in achieving the agreed plantation...
Telangana High Court Quashes Police Notice To X Seeking User Details Of Person Not Named In FIR
The Telangana High Court quashed a Section 94 BNSS notice issued by the police to social media platform 'X' (formerly Twitter) seeking details of a user/account holder, after noting that user's name did not feature in the FIR under investigation and hence there was no prima facie basis for issuance of the notice. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 126]For context Section 94 empowers Courts and police...
Telangana High Court Restrains 'Defamatory' Content Against Two Developers Over Alleged Encroachment On Govt Land
The Telangana High Court has passed interim orders restraining publication of allegedly defamatory content against two developers–Prestige Acres Private Limited and Vaishnaoi Developers (India) Private Limited, by YouTube channels and social media accounts over allegation of encroaching upon graveyard and endowment lands. The court passed the order after prima facie finding that...