A Division Bench of the High Court at Hyderabad comprising Acting Chief Justice D .B. Bhosale and Justice S. V. Bhatt on Wednesday expressed disinclination to direct the police to grant permission for a mass hunger strike by Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi(MRPS) at Tullur, Guntur district. The Bench was dismissing the petition filed by MRPS represented by Nagaiah Madiga. The petitioner complained that the police authorities of Guntur district had not either granted or declined permission. The proposed hunger strike was to protest against land acquisition by the Government for construction of new State capital. The A.P. State Government told the court that for security reasons the permission was not being granted and if the programme was planned beyond October 22, the application would be considered.
Division of assets
The A.P. Government filed a case before the Hyderabad High Court complaining against the stand of the Telangana Government in refusing to divide the assets and intellectual property including old manuscripts with the Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Telugu University. The A.P. Government informed the court that there were nearly 1,200 valuable paintings, old scripts on palm leaves and invaluable manuscripts. The Telangana Government took a decision rejecting the proposal for dividing these assets. The case was likely to be listed before the Bench for Thursday.
