Hyderabad: A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice S.V. Bhatt of the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday ruled that the new Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Rules, 2015 for the High Court were intended to ensure filing of only genuine cases having larger public interest.
The bench was dismissing a petition by K. Sravan Kumar, an advocate, seeking stay of the operation of the new rules.
Mr Shashi Kiran, counsel for the petitioner, told the court that the people who intend to file PILs were facing difficulties due to insistence by the registry for furnishing full personal details and proof regarding occupation, annual income and its source, bank accounts, PAN number and other details.
The bench said “In fact, these rules are based on the rules passed by the Supreme Court. Even the Supreme Court directed implementation of these rules to ensure that only genuine cases come before the courts. These new rules are not intended to create hurdles to the public in filing PILs. There is a need to know the bonafides of the petitioner”.
Cops told to give case files to CBI
Justice Challa Kodandaram of the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Cyberabad and Khammam district police to transfer the case files pending with them on the alleged transfer of the funds of companies under liquidation from State Bank of Hyderabad and several other banks to the the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The judge was dealing with a petition filed by M/s Allwyn Watches Ltd (a company under liquidation) represented by its official liquidator seeking a probe into the fraudulent transfer and misuse of Rs 9 crore belonging to it lying with SBH.
Malkajgiri police in Cyberabad and Khanapur police in Khammam register cases with regard to the alleged fraud of transfer of funds.
Earlier, the judge sought the opinion of the police authorities to transfer the case files pending in Malkajgiri with regard to alleged fraudulent transfer of Rs 9 crore and in Khanapur pertaining to Rs 10.67 crore of the official liquidator funds. As the police officials said that they don’t have any objection to the transfer of case files to the CBI, the judge ordered their transfer with immediate effect.
