A Division Bench of Hyderabad High Court comprising Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice S.V. Bhatt, sitting in vacation court, on Tuesday declared that orders in the writ appeal filed by the former Director General of Police, Aravinda Rao, would be delivered soon.
The former DGP filed the writ appeal aggrieved by the orders of the single judge who called for a report from the Telangana State government in the case to be registered based upon the complaint filed by another senior officer, Sunder Kumar Das. Mr. Das had filed the writ petition in 2009 saying that though he had filed a complaint before the Saifabad police station, the case was not registered.
He averred that Mr. Aravinda Rao had discriminated against him and did not give him any focal posting as he was from SC community. He wanted a case to be registered against Aravinda Rao. The single judge heard the arguments on behalf of the Telangana government and directed that the case be registered.
The present appeal has been filed against this judgment. Mr. Aravinda Rao contended that he was not shown as respondent in the case and without hearing him, the single judge had passed the order merely relying on the submission of the State government that a case should be registered.
Disinclination
on CAT order
The same Division Bench on Tuesday expressed its disinclination to suspend the order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad bench, that had set aside the decision of the AP government suspending the Vijayawada Railway SP Ch. Shyam Prasad Rao. The AP government had registered a criminal case against the senior IPS officer on the grounds that he had claimed and got House Rent Allowance (HRA) in violation of rules. Later, he was suspended. He challenged this suspension in CAT. The CAT bench set aside the order of the AP government. The State government filed a writ petition in the High Court and the vacation bench refused to suspend the judgment of CAT and adjourned the case.
