Written by Rahul V PisharodyHyderabad | November 20, 2025 10:15 AM IST 3 min readThe court observed that the notices had not been published in accordance with the Act.The Telangana High Court Tuesday granted an interim stay of two weeks to 21 property owners on Road No.12, Banjara Hills, against the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)’s land acquisition for the expansion of the road network around KBR National Park.While directing the Telangana Government and GHMC, the bench of Justice N V Shravan Kumar said the matter requires further examination. “Prima facie, it appears that the entire notification has to be examined, and apparently the notices were not issued to all the affected parties, enabling them to put forth their objections,” said Justice Kumar.The matter has been posted to November 24.The petitioners have claimed that the notices issued to them on September 18 and October 1, 2025, under Section 15(1) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, did not comply with the due process requirements under Section 11(1). The owners argued that the notices were arbitrary, illegal, and violative of constitutional rights. They urged the court to consequently set aside the alleged notification and the notices issued to them.They contended that GHMC issued notices to them in 2023 stating that it had taken up the development of the road for better accessibility from Virinchi Hospital to Jubilee Hills Check Post, and from Maharaja Agrasen Junction to Jubilee Hills Check Post via KBR Park, and that the owners were asked to submit the required ownership documents.They claimed that the notices did not mention the relevant provision of law or rules. Another notice was issued in July 2024 under Section 146 of the GHMC Act, requesting consent and handover of the affected portion for the proposed 100 ft. road.The bench noted that some of the petitioners were served notice in October 2025, allegedly in furtherance of a publication of notifications dated August 22 stating that the objections to the land acquisition are to be made within 60 days of the publication of the notification under Section 11(1).Relying on various Supreme Court judgments, the petitioners submitted that the notifications were allegedly published in violation of Section 11(1)(b), (c), (d), (e) and Section 11(3) of the 2013 Act.Story continues below this adOn Tuesday, the petitioners’ counsel, Senior Advocate P Raghu Ram, submitted, “The Section 11 notification could not be traceable anywhere online and is not available in the form of a gazette in the official website, and it is mandatory that the owners should be aware of the notification for land acquisition.”Ram said that the respondent authorities have not followed the prescribed procedure for issuing a notification.The senior counsel further submitted that unless notice is given to all the owners, they would not have opportunity to put-forth their objections and participate in the enquiry scheduled to be held on November 19 at 3 pm at the office of respondent special deputy collector (Land Acquisition), GHMC, and would further submit that the entire process of acquisition is not in accordance to the provisions of the 2013 Act.While the standing counsel for the respondent authorities sought time to get instructions in the matter, the court observed that the notices had not been published in accordance with the Act.Story continues below this ad“The notification issued in September and October on the stretch for acquisition is stayed for a period of two weeks,” said Justice Kumar, and adjourned the matter.Rahul V Pisharody is Assistant Editor with the Indian Express Online and has been reporting for IE on various news developments from Telangana since 2019. He is currently reporting on legal matters from the Telangana High Court. Rahul started his career as a journalist in 2011 with The New Indian Express and worked in different roles at the Hyderabad bureau for over 8 years. As Deputy Metro Editor, he was in charge of the Hyderabad bureau of the newspaper and coordinated with the team of city reporters, district correspondents, other centres and internet desk for over three years. A native of Palakkad in Kerala, Rahul has a Master's degree in Communication (Print and New Media) from the University of Hyderabad and a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. ... Read More© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:telanganaTelangana High Court