By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 28 : The state government on Wednesday submitted before the AP High Court that the Centre has sent back the proposal of the former Chief Justice of the High Court for appointment of four advocates of the Bar as judges of the HC.
The advocate-general, Mr Sudershan Reddy, made this submission before a division bench comprising Justice V.V.S. Rao and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar, which was hearing a petition filed challenging the action of the former Chief Justice in sending the panel without considering the merit. When the case came up for hearing on the last occasion, the judge asked the advocate-general to obtain the information from the government on whether it was still under consideration or not.
Mr Reddy said he had studied the correspondence between the Centre and the state with regard to the panel and the Centre sent it back it to the state. Mr Vasireddy Prabhunath, the petitioner and the practising advocate, asked the bench to direct the chief secretary to file an affidavit by stating that the panel was not considered for the appointment of judges. He said that he had filed a petition for seeking disclosure of the correspondence of the collegium of the High Court with regard to selection of names of the four advocates for the posts of the judges.
The bench posted the matter for orders on Thursday.
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