Telangana High Court allows Jubilee Hills society polls

The Telangana High Court has cleared the way for elections to the Jubilee Hills Cooperative House Building Society Ltd, setting aside a single judge's interim order that had stalled the process. A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin directed the state cooperative election authority to resume the election from the stage it was halted and complete it within eight weeks from receipt of the judgment.

The court ordered that votes of 270 members whose names appeared in the voter slip be cast separately and deposited in distinct ballot boxes. Votes of the remaining members on the final voters list will be kept as a separate set. The bench said the election outcome must be announced in accordance with law, with both categories of ballot papers preserved separately.

Any person aggrieved by the result can challenge it through an election petition, including on the ground that the separately polled votes materially affected the outcome. The court clarified that any election petition or statutory proceeding must be adjudicated independently, without being influenced by observations in the single judge's interim order or the division bench's judgment.