HC serves notice to KTR for criticism its judgment

Taking suo moto cognizance of criticism on one of its judgment, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday served notice to Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA K Tarakarama Rao.

The Sircilla MLA has allegedly attributed motives to the High Court's judgment on a case between Telangana Employees Housing Society and TNGOs leader Swamy Goud. The court asked KTR to file his explanation on the comments before October 30. Reacting to the notice, KTR said that would give a satisfactory reply to the High Court. He also claimed that he never resorted to contempt of court and always held the judiciary in high esteem.

Meanwhile, the TRS MLA also condemned Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanaraya statement that the Congress had mentioned about constituting States Reorganisation Committee to study the demand for Telangana State. Stating that if the Congress was in favour of second SRC, then why the Centre had constituted two different committees led by Pranab Mukherjee and Justice Srikrishna.

Further, KTR asked the PCC chief to explain the reasons why the then Home Minister P Chidambaram announced the formation of Telangana State on December 9, 2009. He alleged that the PCC chief was trying to divert the attention from the recent statement of Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad wherein he said that Telangana solution was not possible in near future.