Hearing against defected MLAs sought
TS Congress whip seeks speedy action against rebel legislators
The Telangana Congress Legislature Party on Thursday moved the Hyderabad High Court seeking a directive to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly to dispose of the disqualification petitions pending before him against the four MLAs from the Congress who joined the TRS.
S.A. Sampath Kumar, Whip of the Telangana Congress Legislature Party filed the petition stating that D.S. Redya Naik, Kale Yadaiah, G. Vittal Reddy and Koram Kanakaiah, MLAs from the Congress joined the TRS without resigning from the party. Mr Kumar also said that the MLAs were elected to the Legislative Assembly on Congress ticket despite which they had indulged in anti-party activities.
He contended that MLAs had committed an act that attracted disqualification and the TCLP had previously filed a separate petition complaining against anti-party activities that the MLAs indulged in and the acts that merited disqualification in August and November 2014 before the Tribunal constituted under the X Schedule of the Constitution presided by the Assembly Speaker.
He said the petitions have been taken on file and issued notices to the MLAs, but the petitions were not disposed of till date.
Deputy collectors to be allotted
AP and TS governments on Thursday submitted before the Hyderabad High Court that they are initiating the process of allotting the deputy collectors to both the states, based on the guidelines given by the Government of India.
A division bench comprising Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice M. Satyanarayana Murthy was disposing off two writ petitions by K. Hymavathi and M. Hanumantha Rao direct recruit deputy collectors challenging refusal of their plea by the AP Administrative Tribunal.
The counsels representing both the states informed the court that deputy collectors were asked to submit their options for the allotment.
Man retracts land pooling consent
A farmer who had initially given his consent to give his land for construction of new capital for the state of AP on Thursday moved the Hyderabad High Court urging the court urging the court to retract his consent and restore his land as the authorities failed to explain the details and consequences of foregoing land through consent.
Borra Hanumantha Rao, a farmer from Malkapuram village of Tulluru mandal of Guntur district moved a petition stating that he had agreed to give his seven acre land situated in Velagapudi and Mandada villages of the mandal.
He contended that, though authorities were obligated to explain the consequence of the voluntary foregoing of land to the farmers in Telugu no such exercise was undertaken.
Justice A. Rajasekhar Reddy then directed the registry to post the case to March 26 by tagging the petition along with other petitions that challenged the CRDA Act and land pooling Rules.
Appointment of staff illegal
A division bench comprising Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice A. Ramali- ngeswara Rao of the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday ruled that appointments of two assistant professors in zoology in Kakatiya University, Warangal were illegal and the appointments are liable to be set aside.
The bench was dismissing the writ appeals by the VC of the varsity and Dr. C. Sravanthi and Dr. Gowda Rajender assistant professors of zoology challenging an order of a single judge holding the appointments as illegal.
Dr. Vinatha Naini and Dr. Damayanthi respectively, aspirants for the posts had challenged the appointment of Dr C. Sravanthi under open competition (women) category.
The single judge found that the 87th meeting of the executive council of the varsity fell short of the required minimum quorum and hence the appointment of the staff was illegal.