The stir by advocates, judicial staff and judges intensified on Wednesday so much so that several advocates were arrested across the State when they attempted to barge into the premises of different courts.
While the agitation was marked by dharna at many places, the attention seemed to be around the High Court here. A heavy security blanket was thrown all around the High Court Complex and only those advocates whose names figured in the cause list for hearing in various courts were allowed inside.
Outside the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court in Medchal, three advocates sat on an indefinite hunger strike. Besides, advocates tried to clamber up the gates of the High Court, but were prevented by the police and were arrested.
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The TNGO leaders Ravinder Reddy and Deviprasad and MLA V. Srinivas Goud participated in a dharna outside the City Civil Courts and reiterated the agitators’ demands, including revoking the suspension of at least 11 judicial officers over the past two days, withdrawal of the provisional list of judicial officers who hailed from Andhra Pradesh but were posted in Telangana and immediate steps to bifurcate the High Court.
The leaders said there was no way the agitation would stop until all the demands were met.
Denouncing the apparent manner in which the Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh were ‘unconcerned’ over the burning issue of judicial officers from A.P. being posted to deliver justice across Telangana in several subordinate courts, the TNGO leaders said they would support the Advocates’ JAC who were going on an indefinite strike from July 1, starting with a ‘Chalo Indira Park’.
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Jaya Vindhyala, an advocate who was on indefinite hunger strike since Tuesday, said she would continue her protest till the demands of the advocates were met.