Hyderabad High Court seeks 1st autopsy report of woodcutters

The Nims authorities on Friday brought to the notice of the bench that that there was no forensic department in the institute and the bench directed that the team from the Osmania Hospital would conduct the post-mortem on Sashi Kumar too.

Earlier, additional advocate general Dammalapati Srinivas had informed the bench that the government would submit the first post-mortem reports of all those who had been killed in the encounter shortly and urged it not to pass an order. The bench posted the case to Monday and directed the AAG to submit the first post-mortem reports.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar of the Hyderabad High Court on Friday made it clear that the old building which housed the chest hospital at Erragadda will not be demolished till a fresh and final decision is taken by the Heritage Conservation Committee and the government acts upon it.

The bench was dealing with a petition by B. Maddileti and K Venkataiah of Mahabubnagar challenging a GO issued by the Telangana government on January 27, 2015 to shift the hospital to Vikarabad in Ranga Reddy district to construct the Secretariat complex in the premises of TB and Chest Hospital in Erragadda.

The state government informed that earlier HCC had proposed to declare this as a heritage building but no final decision is taken and the heritage status is not yet published in the Gazette.

The government further said that the new Heritage Conservation Committee is yet to be constituted for the state of Telangana.

While saying that a new HCC as per rules be constituted, the bench granted six weeks to constitute the committee. The bench said that till a final decision is taken by the committee the building may not be demolished. Refusing to look into the shifting of hospital from the building, the bench closed the plea.