'Officials Unable To Understand Simple Procedure': High Court Grants Relief To Villagers In Land Acquisition Proceedings For Hyderabad Pharma City

Allowing the plea by several villagers from Medipally near Ranga Reddy District, the Telangana High Court has set aside declarations and consequent proceedings for acquisition of their lands by the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) for the construction of Hyderabad Green Pharma City.The bench of Justice Mummineni Sudheer Kumar came down heavily upon the...

Telangana High Court Upholds Kaloji Narayana Rao University’s Mandatory Requirement Of Online Submission Of Documents For MBBS Course

The Telangana High Court has held that mandatory submission of application along with documents for MBBS/BDS course only through online mode, by Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Science (KNRUHS) is not illegal or discriminatory. “Equally the submission that the petitioner cannot operate computer, is misconceived, as she has participated in the NEET UG 2023 examinations online and...

Telangana High Court Asks Its Registrar General To Respond To Plea Challenging Denial Of 'Exemption From Payment' To RTI Applicants Of BPL Category

The Telangana High Court has asked its administrative side to file a counter in a plea challenging the validity of the Rule 3 and 4 of the Telangana High Court Right to Information Rules, 2005 for denial of exemption from payment to RTI applicants belonging to BPL category. The same is violative of Article 14, 19 (1) (a) and 21 of the Constitution and section 7(5) of the RTI Act, 2005, argues...

Telangana Floods: High Court Asks State To Provide Relief To Victims, Take Steps To Prevent Spread Of Diseases

The Telangana High Court has asked the State to file a better report on measures taken to help and rehabilitate victims of floods caused by excessive rains in the state in the past few weeks. “Let us know when essential facilities such as electricity will be restored, and set up camps for counselling for loss due to floods. It is understood that floods are receding, so epidemic diseases...

Provide Option For Declaring 'No Religion', 'No Caste' In Application For Birth Certificate: Telangana High Court To State

Observing that the system has to evolve along with the times and the changing requirements of the citizens, the Telangana High Court has ordered the state government to provide a ‘no religion’ and ‘no caste’ column in the application for Birth Certificate.In the decision on a couple's plea seeking a "non religious and no caste” identity for their child, Justice Lalitha Kanneganti...

Telangana High Court Refuses To Suspend Order Declaring BRS MLA Vanama Venkateswara's 2018 Election As Void

The Telangana High Court has dismissed former MLA Vanama Venkateswara Rao’s application seeking suspension of its recent decision declaring his 2018 election from Kothagudem constituency as void. Besides setting aside his election for non-disclosure of complete details about his assets, the court had also imposed a penalty of 5 Lakh on Rao. In the application seeking suspension of the...

Centre Notifies Appointment Of 3 New Judges To Telangana High Court

The Centre today notified the appointment of three new judges to the High Court of Telanagana. Advocate Anil Kumar Jukanti, Advocate Laxminsarayana Alishetty and Judicial Officer Sujana Kalasikam are the new judges appointed. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their names.The Chief Justice of Telanagana, in consultation with two his senior most colleagues...

'What Will An MP Say In Parliament If He Doesn’t Have Information?': Telangana High Court On Denial Of Information Under RTI Act To Congress MP

The Telangana High Court has asked the state government and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) to explain their failure in responding to RTI applications filed by State Congress Committee President and Member Parliament Anumula Revanth Reddy.“If a member of the Parliament can’t speak about public activities, then who can? If he does not have information, what will he...

State Needs To Have Litigation Policy, Cannot Be Biggest Litigant: Telangana High Court To Advocate General

Telangana High Court Chief Justice Alok Aradhe on Friday said the State needs to have a ‘Litigation Policy’ that aims at reducing litigation. “You say you are a model state. You must be having a ‘State Litigation Policy’? The aim is to reduce litigation,” Justice Aradhe said.The division bench of Chief Justice Aradhe and Justice T. Vinod Kumar made the observations during the...

Telangana High Court Orders Lake Protection Committee To Notify Buffer Zone For Water Bodies In Greater Hyderabad

The Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the State Lake Protection Committee to notify within two weeks the buffer zone for all water-bodies including lakes, falling within the area under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).“Admittedly, Lake Protection Committee is a statutory body. We are ... by the fact that the Lake Protection Committee has not issued any guidelines...

Will Appoint State Consumer Commission's President Within Six Weeks: Telangana Govt To High Court

Telangana government has assured the Telangana High Court that the post of President of State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, that has been lying vacant since February, will be filled within a period of six weeks.Senior Counsel Harender Pershad, representing the State, gave an undertaking in this regard before the court the division bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T...

Telangana High Court Declares BRS MLA Vanama Venkateswara's 2018 Assembly Election Void, Imposes Rs 5 Lakh Penalty

The Telangana High Court has declared BRS MLA Vanama Venkateswara Rao's 2018 election from Kothagudem as void and fined him Rs 5,00,000 for submitting false affidavit during the filing of nomination papers before the Returning Officer. The court declared Jalagam Venkat Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samith) as the returned candidate from the constituency with effect...