Hyderabad: T-advocates on Friday warned that they will lay siege to Parliament if the Centre fails to bifurcate the Hyderabad High Court between AP and TS.
T-advocates, led by the Telangana Federation of Bar Associations, Telangana Advocates JAC and Telangana High Court Advocates Association leaders staged a maha dharna at the Indira Park where they warned the Centre that they will march to Delhi and lay siege to Parliament for their legitimate demands.
They demanded the Centre to ensure bifurcation of the High Court and recall of the provisional allocation of judicial officers between the two states.
They also demanded the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court to revoke suspension of 11 judicial officers and 11 judicial employees with immediate effect.
They also resolved to continue their agitation till their demands were met. Political leaders, including N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Sridhar Babu, P. Shankar Rao, Asaduddin Owaisi, Chada Venkat Reddy, Balka Suman, Burra Narsaiah Goud, Guvvala Balraj, G. Srinivas Goud, Niranjan Reddy and N.V.S.S. Prabhakar along with TJAC chairman Prof. M. Kodandaram and Prof. Visweswar Rao extended support to the protesters.
T-advocates to brief CJI on developments
Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur has granted appointment to a delegation of the Telangana High Court Advocates Association for Sunday. The T-advocates will meet the CJI at his residence at Delhi.
In view of the ongoing agitation of the T-advocates for the last 25 days demanding bifurcation of the Hyderabad High Court between TS and AP and recall of the provisional allocation of subordinate judicial officers between the two states, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s letter to the CJI and the Centre and also the meeting of Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda with the CJI, Justice Thakur has invited the THCAA leaders to personally appraise the situation prevailing in the state.
T-advocate Gandra Mohan Rao said that he, along with some of the THCAA office-bearers, will submit a representation to the CJI urging him to take steps for revocation of suspension of judicial officers and employees.
Meanwhile, the AP Judicial Officers Association on Friday met the Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and complained that T-advocates have been hurting the sentiments of the Andhra native judicial officers working in TS.
