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High Court refuses to issue notices to Telangana government
Telangana High Court
The division bench headed by Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Bollam Vijaysen Reddy on Thursday refused to issue notice to the Telangana government with regard to a plea filed by an NGO, Forum for Good Governance, seeking a direction to the State government to expedite prosecution of criminal cases against the MLAs and MPs of Telangana
Hyderabad: The division bench headed by Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Bollam Vijaysen Reddy on Thursday refused to issue notice to the Telangana government with regard to a plea filed by an NGO, Forum for Good Governance, seeking a direction to the State government to expedite prosecution of criminal cases against the MLAs and MPs of Telangana.
Stating on the ground that the Supreme Court had already seized of the matter and adhering to the directions of the Supreme Court, the Telangana High Court is supervising the adjudication of the criminal cases in the special court.
Moreover, CJ Chauhan refused to accept the contentions of the petitioner's counsel, Satyam Reddy, that the police personnel were gripped in a sense of fear in attending the court as the cases pertain to public representatives and further, due to paucity of staff viz., public prosecutor and other staff, adjudication has lost pace.
The CJ bench, while apprising the petitioner on the endeavor of the courts in strengthening the Special Court dealing with the criminal cases pending against public representatives said, "The High Court has already directed the Telangana government to fill up 200 vacancies of public prosecutors out of the sanctioned strength of 414 and the government has already initiated the process."
The CJ pointed out that the lower courts and the special courts were functioning adhering to the High Court orders which has directed them to function abiding by the SOP-1, Phase-1 Covid norms and the working of lower courts and special courts were minimal due to wide spread of Covid-19, which was why the hearing was a bit slow.
Chief Justice Chauhan observed that the High Court was obtaining a daily report from the special court on the progress of adjudication of the criminal cases pertaining to MLAs and MPs and a monthly report was being sent to the Supreme Court.
Hence, neither the petitioner nor anyone else can worry about the prosecution of the cases against the public representatives by the special court as the trial of cases cited was directly monitored and supervised by the Supreme Court and the High Court.
