Sons abandon mother, want case quashed

By S A Ishaqui

Hyderabad, Aug. 14: Three sons who deserted their aged mother in a graveyard in Tirupati in 2006 approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking quashing of a sentence imposed on them by the third additional session judge court of Tirupati.

N. Ramesh, N. Nagaraju and N. Sudhakar, sons of Parvathamma, a resident of Tirupati town, were convicted by the lower court and sentenced to three years imprisonment for leaving their mother to death in the graveyard.

According to the prosecution, the trio abandoned their mother after grabbing her three-storey building. She used to beg on the streets for survival. On November 16, 2006, she fell unconscious at Pachhika Palem in the town and locals identified her and informed her sons. They took her to a nearby graveyard and left her there.

A Good Samaritan informed the sarpanch about the woman. He admitted her to the SVIMS Hospital. She died on November 18.

Ayush chief gets notice

The Andhra Pradesh High Court issued notices to the commissioner, department of Ayush, in a contempt case.

A division bench comprising Justice V. Eswaraiah and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar was dealing with a contempt petition filed by one Dr S. Bhavani, senior medical officer of Nature Cure Hospital, seeking a direction to punish the officials for contempt of orders of the High Court.

The High Court ordered the Ayush commissioner to consider the seniority of the petitioner for the post of chief medical officer. The court suspended an order which named another officer — who was a junior to the petitioner as per the roaster point — for the post.

ESIC to process insurance claim

Justice P. Lakshmana Reddy of the Central Administrative Tribunal directed the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to process the reimbursement claim of Rs 3.84 lakh, which a retired employee spent on emergency treatment for his wife’s heart problem.

The judge was dealing with a petition filed by one B. Mutyalu, a retired assistant director of ESIC. The judge over-ruled the objections raised by the ESIC authorities and asked them to rely on the emergency certificate issued by the hospital.