AP High Court suggests transfer of ACP in city

By S A Ishaqui

Hyderabad,July 9: Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday asked the city police commissioner to consider shifting an assistant commissioner of police of Banjara Hills division to a non-focal post.

The judge was dealing with a petition filed by Mohammed Junaid Hussain and others complaining that the ACP was interfering in civil disputes. Prior to this petition the judge also dealt with another petition in which the same complaint was made against the ACP by the petitioner.

Ms W. Rachana, assistant government pleader for home department, told the court that the authorities did not notice any involvement of the official in unduly interfering in civil cases. She said this was also mentioned in the counter affidavit filed by the department.

She submitted that there was a case and counter case against the petitioners and respondents pertaining to their civil dispute.

While accepting the counter affidavit, the judge observed that the involvement of the ACP was noticed by the court in more than one case, keeping in view of the adverse complaints against the ACP, the commissioner should consider to shift him to a non-focal post.

AP told to file affidavit on poll

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the state government to file its counter affidavit on a petition filed against the conduct of elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation without finalising the delimitation of wards.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan was dealing with a writ petition filed by Mr Pradeep Kumar, a practising advocate. The petitioner also challenged the reservation of wards for some Muslim communities in the ensuing elections to GHMC.

Mr N. Ramachandra Rao, counsel for the petitioner, contended that the proposed reservation of wards for Muslims was not sustainable. He sought an interim direction that the reservation may not be implemented. The court was not inclined to interfere in reservations as the case was already pending in the Supreme Court.

He said the delimitation of wards as proposed and published was not in accordance with rules and law. The court posted the matter for two weeks.

No polytechnic in BE colleges

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday stayed an order issued by the state government to allow polytechnic courses to be conducted in engineering colleges as a second shift.

The government recently gave permission to the private engineering colleges to run the courses in second shifts in addition to the main courses.

The private polytechnics management association challenged the order in the court. They told the court the decision of the government would have an adverse impact on them and they are running the institutes for the past three decades. The court granted an interim stay and asked the respondents to submit their replies.

Teacher transfer order suspended

The AP Administrative Tribunal (APAT) on Thursday suspended a guideline issued by the commissioner of school education pertaining to the transfer of teachers.
The tribunal directed the school education department to transfer teachers in accordance with the statutory rules issued by the state government on January 23, 2009.

The tribunal was dealing with an application filed by Mr K. Raghupal Reddy, a teacher of government model school, Nagarjunasagar. He told the tribunal that according to the government rules, a teacher who was appointed and posted in a panchayat raj or zilla parishad school initially will now be posted in the schools run by the same zilla parishad managements irrespective of his or her present posting.

However, the commissioner’s order says that if the teacher is currently employed in a government or corporation school or a ZP school, he will go to the same category of schools.