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Court split spat gets shriller
Around 8,000 employees working in various courts and Judicial Departments across Telangana State on Friday went on an indefinite strike to express solidarity with agitating judges in the State, crippling court work and leaving litigants helpless.
Delay over the division of State High Court is slowly snowballing into a major skirmish between the two Telugu States. Protests in Telangana State are growing with each passing day, throwing court work out of gear. Leaders of political parties are singing different tunes and pulling horses in different directions with regard to the vexed issue
Judicial staff stir cripples courts
- The staff launches indefinite strike to express their solidarity with agitating judges
- They demand withdrawal of provisional selection list of judicial officers in the State
- Appointment of judicial officers of AP nativity in Telangana State has become a bone of contention
Hyderabad: Around 8,000 employees working in various courts and Judicial Departments across Telangana State on Friday went on an indefinite strike to express solidarity with agitating judges in the State, crippling court work and leaving litigants helpless.
Acting Chief Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale and Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad made an appeal to agitating employees and judicial officials to immediately withdraw the "illegal" strike and agitation and resume duties in public interest.
A release issued by the High Court Registrar General also warned that if the strike was not called off immediately, it may have to consider other options to ensure that the litigants do not suffer. The employees are seeking withdrawal of the list of provisional allocation of judicial officers between AP and Telangana and High Court bifurcation, among other demands.
All India Judicial Employees Association General Secretary B Lakshma Reddy said the employees in all the 10 districts held demonstrations. "We demand immediate roll back of the provisional allocation list of judges between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
We also demand that the High Court should be bifurcated. The strike will go on until our demands are met," he said. Lakshma Reddy and eight other principal members of the association were placed under suspension by the High Court on Thursday for allegedly violating the code of conduct.
"The acting Chief Justice and companion judges of the high court of judicature at Hyderabad, once again, make an appeal to all Judicial Officers and judicial employees to withdraw their illegal agitation/strike and start functioning immediately in the larger interest of litigating public, more particularly in the State of Telangana.
"If that does not happen, the High Court, in the larger interest of litigant public in both the States who look to the judiciary with the hope of getting timely justice, may have to consider other options to ensure that the litigant public do not suffer," the High Court release said.
The High Court has suspended 11 judicial officers on disciplinary grounds during the past four days. Around 200 judges from Telangana are on a mass leave in protest against suspension of the 11 judicial officers amid the ongoing stir over the provisional allocation of judicial officers from Andhra Pradesh to Telangana courts.
