By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, July 14 : A division bench of Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (political) convener, Prof. Kodandaram, and also the Centre and the state governments, on a petition questioning the ongoing rail roko.
The bench was hearing a plea by the president of the Warangal district consumer forum, Mr S. Chakrapani, seeking a direction to declare the action of the government in not taking any steps, including preventive methods, to restrain the TRS and the TJAC from conducting the rail roko agitation, as arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional.
Mr Chakrapani told the court that various political parties in the Telangana region resorted to various agitations to demand that the Union of India introduce the Telangana Bill, and in that process the people of the state, particularly in Telangana, are put to so much inconvenience and deprived of their personal liberty and their livelihood, which is against Article 21 of the Constitution.
Enumerating the recent agitations — bandhs, rasta rokos and rail rokos — organised by various parties including the TRS and the TJAC, he urged the court to recover damages caused to public and private properties due to these bandhs and other agitations, from the political parties that inflicted them.
The bench directed the respondents to file their replies to the plea within two weeks
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