Hyderabad: Justice A.V. Sesha Sai of the AP High Court on Tuesday directed the registry to post a petition before the division bench seeking a ban on the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party.
The plea was put forth by Dr A.S. Rao, a resident, declaring that the action of the Election Commission in not banning or deregistering the MIM, which runs with the sole ideology of Muslim democracy, protection of Muslim rights and Muslim nationalism, as well as fans communalism in the state, is illegal.
He alleged that MIM Floor leader in the Legislative Assembly, Akbaruddin Owaisi, has been accused and is standing trial for sedition, criminal conspiracy, spreading communal hatred and other serious charges while its president Asaduddin Owaisi has been charged of manhandling the Medak district collector in 2005.
Mr Rao also sought a probe into the activities of the MIM. He informed the court that the EC had given a reply stating that it had no power to deregister the MIM. Aggrieved by this inaction, he had moved the court by filing the writ.
The judge said that the plea involved a larger public interest and it would be proper if it is heard by a division bench. Minor’s death taken up as PIL Chief Justice K.J. Sengupta has decided to take up the death by accident of a minor girl as a PIL as she was refused treatment by certain corporate hospitals.
The CJ took the decision following a letter from Justice B. Chandra Kumar, in which the latter urged the CJ to consider the case of the Class III student as a PIL for issuing appropriate directions and to see that similar incidents do not occur.
The girl, Swathi, had met with a road accident at Pallepahad in Nalgonda district in September this year. She died on her way to Nims.
In his letter, the judge opined that a hospital, corporate or otherwise, can’t refuse to treat an injured when he or she is brought to the hospital in a critical state.
