Hyderabad: A division bench of Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar of the High Court on Monday directed the GHMC commissioner and the police to remove all unauthorised hoardings and flexies put up in the city within a week. The bench was dealing with a PIL filed by the Trust for Social Justice, a charitable institution, seeking a ban on hazardous flexboards all over the state, and stringent action against those who put them up.
On February 24, the court had directed the GHMC and the police to remove all unauthorised hoardings, posters, and flexboards within a week and to report compliance.
The petitioner’s counsel submitted that due to the general elections, political parties had put up cut-outs, flexboards and posters in various places of the city ignoring the court’s order.
GHMC counsel Nagesh Bheempaka told the court that all identified unauthorised hoardings have been removed in the special drives undertaken by the GHMC and the police. On an earlier occasion, the GHMC had told the court that in the past three years, 740 unauthorised hoardings had been identified and 626 of them had been removed, and the remaining 114 were in the process of being removed.
