No time limit for issuing showcause notices on poll expenses: Telangana HC

Hyderabad: A two-panel judge of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili on Thursday affirmed that there was no time limit to issue show cause notices for submission of election expenditure statement. The panel was dealing with a petition filed by the elected members of various Gram […]

Hyderabad: A two-panel judge of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili on Thursday affirmed that there was no time limit to issue show cause notices for submission of election expenditure statement.

The panel was dealing with a petition filed by the elected members of various Gram Panchayats in different villages in the State. They have been disqualified from their posts due to the delay in filing of the Election Expenditure Report. An order was also passed disqualifying the petitioners for contesting in the elections for the next three years and were removed from their current post.

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Aggrieved by the actions of the Telangana State Election Commission, the petitioners filed the plea stating that the disqualification was arbitrary and illegal on the grounds of a delay in issuance of a show cause notice. The court in the case held that there was no time limit as such to issue a show cause notice. The panel further observed that there was no inordinate delay on part of the State Election Commission in issuing the notice. All the related cases have been remanded back to a single judge to be decided based on the merits of the case.

Possession of rental premises

The same panel allowed two writ appeals on the question of taking possession of the rental premises of the deceased advocate couple Vaman Rao and P Nagamani.

The father of Vaman Rao had moved the court laying claim to the property which was in the tenancy of the deceased advocate couple. The landlady of the very same property also filed a writ petition claiming her right to take possession of the property. A single judge had previously allowed a writ petition of the landlady and appointed an Advocate Commissioner to take an inventory of the property therein leaving it to the parties to take appropriate steps thereafter. In a PIL, the panel said both the writ petitions were misconceived and that the parties had effective alternate remedies which they were free to invoke.

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