Hyderabad: Scores of advocates were taken into preventive custody in front of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday when they tried to barge into the court premises.
Advocates practising at various subordinate courts in the city on Wednesday reached the High Court in response to the “Chalo High Court” call given by the Telangana High Court Advocates Association in protest against the suspension of 11 judicial officers and against the provisional allocation of subordinate judicial officers between TS and AP and also demanding bifurcation of the High Court.
When they tried to barge into the court premises, the police took them into custody. At this stage heated arguments between the police and advocates and minor scuffles were witnessed on the roads outside the High Court.
As many as 100 advocates were taken into custody and released later. Similar scenes were witnessed at Ranga Reddy, Nampally and City Civil Courts complexes in the city. Meanwhile, T-advocates continued their stir on Wednesday across the state by boycotting courts.
The TNGOs Association has expressed its solidarity to the agitation.
TNGOs’ leaders Devi Prasad and Ravinder Reddy visited the City Civil Courts and expressed their support to the protesting advocates and judicial officers.
District judges’ power to grant leave withdrawn
The Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday issued a circular withdrawing the power to grant leave vested with district judges to their subordinate judges.
The circular was issued in the backdrop of the ongoing stir by subordinate judicial officers in Telangana state.
The subordinate judicial officers of TS had threatened to go on mass leave in protest against the delay in bifurcation of the High Court and also the provisional allocation.
By virtue of the circular, the power to grant leave now vests with the High Court.
Meanwhile, members of the Telangana Congress Legal Cell, led by its chairman C. Damodar Reddy met Union law minister Sadananda Gowda in Delhi and submitted a memorandum urging him to do justice to judicial officers of Telangana in the allocation of officers between TS and AP.
The delegation explained to the minister that Parliament has empowered the Centre to allocate judicial officers between the two states under the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014.
