Telangana High Court: Take CJ permission in MLAs poaching case

Telangana High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to take permission from the Chief Justice in connection with its petition seeking suspension of the single bench order in the BRS MLAs poaching case, for a period of four weeks.

It may be recalled the division bench headed by chief justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Monday refused to entertain an appeal filed in this matter on the ground that the appeal was not maintainable.

Immediately, the government moved lunch motion on Tuesday seeking suspension of the single bench order for four weeks to enable it to file the appeal before the Supreme Court.

A single bench of the High Court on December quashed SIT constituted by the State government and directed CBI probe into the alleged BRS MLAs poaching case.

While hearing the plea, Justice Bollam Vijaysen Reddy sought to know from Advocate General Banda Shivananda Prasad whether he has taken permision from the Chief Justice before moving the lunch motion.

The judge orally observed that there were some technical objections. When the Division Bench refuses to grant such relief, even by not giving any liberty to the State to move it before Single Judge, how can the Single Judge deal with it.

The Advocate General informed the court that will take permission from the Chief Justice.

At this point, the Judge asked the Deputy Solicitor General, Gade Praveen Kumar, whether the CBI had registered an FIR in the matter.

Praveen Kumar informed the court that the CBI has not yet registered the FIR because the State Government has not responded though the CBIR wrote letters thrice.