The Kurnool Ward Delimitation Case in the High Court

Ward boundaries decide which streets fall in which municipal division, and re-drawing them — delimitation — changes the map that local elections are fought on. In Kurnool, that re-drawing was challenged in court.

The petition and the order

A writ petition, W.P. No. 15303 of 2026, was filed in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati challenging the re-drawing of ward boundaries within Kurnool Municipal Corporation while the 2027 Census process was still under way. The petitioner of record is Saidhar Mahesh, a former corporator; Ahmed Ali Khan’s office describes the case as taken up by his legal team.

On 11 June 2026, the High Court — before Justice Subba Reddy Satti — granted an interim stay on the delimitation process. The court order and a newspaper report of it are both linked in the Public Records section of the News page.

Why the distinction matters

It is worth being precise about who did what. The petitioner named in the court record is not Ahmed Ali Khan; his office’s role, as it describes it, was to support the case through its legal team. Stating that accurately is the point — a claim that overreaches on a court matter is the easiest kind to disprove, and the record here says exactly what happened and no more.

This case appears among the office’s civic-issue work; the wider record is on the social-service pages.