By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad,March 31: Justice L. Narasimha Reddy of the AP High Court on Thursday directed the Hyderabad city police commissioner to provide adequate protection to Mr Adusumulli Jayaprakash, former MLA of Krishna district to appear before the court on April 8 in connection with a contempt case.
It may be mentioned that the court earlier took suo motu cognisance of a complaint of Mr Jayaprakash to the Supreme Court and the Centre seeking action against Justice Narasimha Reddy in connection with certain observations of the judge on the Justice Srikrishna Commission. The court issued notices to him and two Telugu news channels to answer why the proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act should not be initiated.
When the case came up for hearing on Thursday, Mr Satish Galla, appearing for Mr Jayaprakash told the court that his client filed an affidavit seeking to dispense with his presence in the case as he was not able to appear in person and was worried about his safety due to the surcharged atmosphere at Hyderabad and the High Court. The AG replied that if the Mr Jayaprakash makes an application the city police will provide him security. Elsewhere, the advocate-general has permitted two advocates to initiate proceeding under Contempt of Courts Act to prosecute Mr S. Chandra Mohan Reddy and three other TD leaders for allegedly making adverse remarks against a HC judge. After pronouncement of judgement by Justice L. Narasimha Reddy on Chapter 8 of the Justice Srikrishna Committee, the TD leaders conducted a press conference and made certain remarks against the judge. Mr A. Chandra Sekhar and Mr S. Sarath Kumar, advocates, sought the permission of the AG to move contempt case against the TD leaders.
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