Wednesday, June 23, 2010

High Court rejects appointment of Srikalahasti board

By S A Ishaqui

Hyderabad, June 22: The AP High Court on Tuesday quashed the appointment of the board of trustees for the Srikalahasti Temple.

Justice Ramesh Ranganathan, while allowing a petition filed by Mr. G Pratap and others challenging the action of the government in not following the Trustee Rules , 1987, in the appointment of trustees to the board, declared the government order issued for appointing the trustees of the temple on February 20, 2009 as illegal.

The petitioners alleged that the appointments were made under the influence of the municipal administration minister, Mr Anam Ramnarayana Reddy. The judge set aside the order on the ground of non-verification of the antecedents of the trustees.

TRS petitions court on bypoll vacancies

A writ petition was filed in the High Court on Tuesday by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, represented by its general secretary, Mr K Yadagiri Reddy, seeking a direction to declare the action of the Election Commission in not notifying for filling up vacancies of Vemulawada and Sircilla assembly constituencies in the election schedule as illegal.

The petitioner sought a direction to the EC to fill up the two vacancies by holding byelections along with other 10 assembly constituencies in July, 2010.

Petition to form T board dismissed

A division bench comprising Justice V.V.S. Rao and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar of the High Court, on Tuesday, dismissed a writ petition that was filed seeking a direction to form the Telangana Regional Board in accordance with the Gentlemen’s Agreement.

The bench was dealing with the petition filed by Mr N. Amesh Kumar of Nalgonda.

He told the court that as per the six-point formula arrived at after the Gentlemen’s Agreement, a regional board for Telangana has to be set up to look after the developmental activities in the region.

GHMC told to report on lake clean-up

The High Court, on Tuesday, directed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to submit a report by Wednesday on the steps taken to remove the debris dumped into Durgam Cheruvu lake. The bench was dealing with a petition filed by Captain J. Rama Rao on behalf of the Forum for Sustainable Development.

The court passed an order on November, 20, 2009, directing the GHMC to take steps to remove the debris.

When the petitioner’s counsel brought to the notice of the court that the debris is still lying in the lake, the bench expressed its dismay at the attitude of the GHMC and sought an ATR.

Stay on notice to Libra advertising

The court on Tuesday stayed a notice issued by the GHMC assistant commissioner (Audit) to Libra Outdoor Advertising owned by Mr T. Dayakar Reddy.

Mr Reddy challenged the notice issued to him to pay the sales tax for the assessment year 2006-07, 2007-08 under the A.P. Vat Act.

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