Telangana-Centre row escalates
29/06/2016
Nine more lower court judges were suspended by the High Court on disciplinary grounds as the agitation against provisional allocation of judges between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana intensified with 200 judicial officers in Telangana going on mass leave for 15 days.
The Telangana Judges Association also called for a ‘High Court Bandh’.
The development also escalated the row between Telangana Government and the Centre, with the TRS blaming the Centre for not bifurcating the HC following carving out of Telangana from undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
Protesting the action taken by the High Court today, about 200 judicial officers working across the state decided to go on mass leave for 15 days beginning today.
The HC had yesterday suspended two lower court judges after over 100 of them took out a procession and submitted a representation on their demands to the Governor on Sunday under the banner of the Telangana Judges Association.
However, Union Law Minister D V SadanandaGowda said the Centre had no role in the bifurcation of a high court. The state government blaming the Centre on the issue was "unacceptable and intolerable", Gowda said.
He also rubbished the TRS charge that the Centre was under political pressure from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
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