Hyderabad High Court says no to Telangana administrative tribunal

Advocate general of Telangana K. Ramakrishna Reddy, while making a special mention before the bench, said that the state government has written a letter to the Centre conveying its intention not to recognise the existing AP Administrative Tribunal as tribunal for the Telangana state also.

The bench however, made it clear that it cannot give any direction on this issue now because the Telangana state has not produced the copy of the letter it wrote to the Centre.

The bench said till the Centre officially denotifies the APAT’s jurisdiction, the present tribunal will continue as a common tribunal for redressing the service grievances of the employees of both the states.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday ruled that the Telangana government was empowered to constitute its own Bhoodan Yagna Board in the state to protect and maintain the lands under the purview of the Board.

The bench was dealing with appeals by the Telangana government challenging the single judge order in suspending GO Ms No.11 dated July 5, 2014 for adaptation of the Andhra Pradesh Bhoodan and Gramdhan Act, 1965 to the state of Telangana and appointing special officer to the Board by superseding the existing committee.

While arguing the appeals before the bench, K. Ramakrishna Reddy, advocate general of Telangana, contended that Telangana being a new state, has every right to constitute a competent Board of its own’.

While making it clear that the government was entitled to constitute its own Board, the bench directed that the existing Board should not take any policy decision with regard to the issues relating to Telangana jurisdiction till constitution of its own Board.

The Hyderabad HC on Wednesday issued a notice before admission to Ramky Infrastructure Ltd of Hyderabad asking it to explain its case within a month as to why the court should not admit a petition seeking the liquidation of Ramky Infra.

Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy was dealing with a petition by JR Metals Chennai Pvt. Ltd which is urging the court to wind up the Ramky Company.

Sivaraju Srinivas, the counsel for the petitioner submitted that his client has supplied steel worth Rs 4 crore to Ramky Infra between 2011 and 2013, but the company has defaulted payment of Rs 1.5 crore for the supplies made by his client.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday commenced hearing on petitions challenging the creation of the post of the parliamentary secretary and subsequent appointments by Telangana government.

Congress MP, G. Sukhender Reddy and TD MLA, A. Revanth Reddy moved separate petitions challenging the Telangana Parliamentary Secretaries (Appointment, salaries, allowances and miscellaneous provisions) Act, 2015.