High Court Gives A Week’s Time To Govt For Reviving Congress MLAs Status

Hyderabad: While hearing the petition in the contempt case filed by Congress MLAs Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and SA Sampath Kumar, the High Court on Friday granted a week’s time to the state Assembly & law department secretaries and adjourned the hearing to August 10. Responding to a request to grant two weeks' time to submit the documents pertaining to the case, justice B Siva Sankara Rao granted a week's time. The government officials urged that the consultations to implement the court's earlier order to restore the Congress MLAs' status in the Legislative Assembly.

The High Court sought action against law secretary V Niranjan Rao and Assembly secretary V Narasimha Charyulu for deliberately delaying the implementation of the order passed by the court earlier this year. Justice Siva Sankara Rao, on April 17, ruled that the expulsion of the two legislators by the Assembly was invalid, citing violation of the principles of natural justice.

On Friday, the court clarified that arguments over the merits of the case would be heard, only after Form-1 under the Contempt of Court Act is issued.

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