Justice B. Seshasayana Reddy of the High Court on Monday quashed the criminal proceedings pending against TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu. The Chaitanyapuri police had registered a case against the TD chief following a direction of a lower court, based on a complaint by an advocate that the TD leader had cheated the people of Telangana by promising that the party would support the formation of a separate state in its election manifesto but had changed his stance after the general election. Mr Naidu had approached the High Court seeking the quashing of the proceedings and the judge allowed his plea.
Plea against JC: counter sought
A division bench comprising Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice P. Durga Prasad on Monday asked the government to file its counter-affidavit on a plea seeking an independent probe into the allotment of mining lease to Trisur Cements. One D. Murali Prasad Reddy had alleged in his plea that the allotment was vitiated as the beneficiaries of the allotments were benamies of former minister and sitting MLA J.C. Diwakar Reddy.
State fails to file reports, fined
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar on Monday leavied fines of Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 on the government for its failure to submit the action taken reports and action plans in two different cases. The bench imposed the fine of Rs 10,000 on the government for failing to submit its status report on large-scale encroachments on the Musi River. In another petition relating to incidence of high fluoride content in drinking water in Nalgonda and other districts, the bench had called for a report and found that the government had not responded. The bench directed the authorities to pay a fine of Rs 5,000.
PIL against ec on Jagan dismissed
The High Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to declare that the Election Commission erred in not constituting an independent machinery to verify whether Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and Y.S. Vijayalakshmi disclosed their properties correctly at the time of filing their nomination or not in recently concluded bypolls. The petitioner, Satyanarayana, said the affidavits of the two candidates were incorrect and therefore their candidature ought to have been rejected. While dismissing the plea, the Chief Justice said that petition is not bonafide and it is politically motivated.
