Hyderabad, April 20: A two-judge bench of the AP High Court comprising chief justice Vilas Afzalpurkar on Tuesday ordered notice to sitting TDP MLAs and two former MLAs of the party with regard to contempt cases against them.
Two practising advocates of the High Court Arcot Chandrasekhar and Sarat Kumar filed independent contempt cases against the TDP functionaries for their public utterances against the order made by Justice L. Narasimha Reddy on the eighth chapter of the Srikrishna Committee report.
Both the petitioners pointed out that the utterances were intended to attack the majesty of the court. It is contended that while it is open to be critical of a judgment, but not critical of a judge as was done in the present case.
The bench while ordering notice, however, raised the question as to whether the advocate general granted sanction to prosecute instead of permission as sought and whether the same vitiated the initiation process of the contempt case.The sitting MLAs include Balli Durga Prasad and K. Ramakrishna. The ex MLAs are Chandra Mohan Reddy and Mallela Linga Reddy.The respondents will get over four weeks to reply.
Don’t reject sarpanch’s nomination: HC
Justice G. Rohini of the AP High court on Tuesday directed the electoral authorities not to reject the nomination of one BV Karun Kumar Reddy for the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat in the bypolls.
Karun Kumar Reddy along with six others complained to the court that their names were excluded from the voters list and despite directions by the Chief Electoral Officer to consider their representations nothing was done.
The petitioner, who is the sarpanch of the village, attributed the exclusion of their names from the voters list, to the sitting MLA of Kamalapuram and the family feuds. He pointed out that over 500 names were deleted from the list. The judge directed that the representation be considered within two days and in the interregnum the nomination of the sarpanch not be rejected.
Kamineni-Wockhart hospitals dispute
Justice G. Rohini of the AP High court on Tuesday allowed two arbitration petitions filed by Wockhart Hospitals against Kamineni Group of hospitals and appointed Justice Motilal B. Naik as the Arbitrator to deal with disputes between the parties.
The two players had entered into an agreement in 2004 with a four-year lockin period. Kamineni Group cancelled the working relation in 2009. Wockhdart contended that the parties had agreed to sort out their disputes through arbitration but Kamineni had failed to refer the matter to arbitration. Aggrieved by the stance a petition was filed in the High Court.
–Agencies