In a significant legal development, the Telangana High Court has issued an interim stay on the elections for the Jubilee Hills Cooperative House Building Society, effectively putting the election notification issued in March on hold. This decision follows a petition filed by society member Sunil Reddy, who challenged the notification by alleging serious irregularities in the voters’ list.
During the hearing, the petitioner’s counsel highlighted that while 270 new members were added in 2024 following previous court orders, many long-standing members were unfairly removed – an issue that the Registrar of the Cooperative Department reportedly ignored despite formal objections.
While the Cooperative Department’s counsel argued that the judiciary should not interfere once an election process has commenced, Justice Nanda Surepalli clarified that the court has the authority to intervene when multiple related petitions and contempt cases regarding the same voters’ list are already under judicial review. Citing various Supreme Court precedents to justify the stay, the bench ordered the respondents to file their counters and adjourned the matter to April 30th for further hearing.
