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Supreme Court shock to AP on Green Tribunal order

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Supreme Court shock to AP on Green Tribunal order

The Supreme Court of India has rejected the petition of the Jaganmohan Reddy Government with respect to the Purushottampatnam irrigation project. The court upheld the judgement of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which ordered AP to stop the project.

The NGT has insisted that the AP Government should get all the necessary environmental clearances before proceeding with the project works. The Tribunal did not accept the Jagan regime’s argument that the Purushottampatnam project was not a new project and hence there was no need for environmental clearances. But the NGT insisted on the approval. The YCP Government petitioned the Supreme Court which has also rejected the AP argument.

Interestingly, a similar strategy was being repeatedly used by the Jagan regime to win the cases in the courts. But it was meeting with failure. With respect to the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project also, the AP Government made a similar argument that it was not a new project. But the court did not accept the argument.

For different reasons, the Jagan regime was taking up projects and starting works without bothering about the procedural and legal hurdles. Eventually, those projects were landing in deadlock in the courts.

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Hyderabad encounter: SC extends term of probe panel by 6 months

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Hyderabad encounter: SC extends term of probe panel by 6 months

The Supreme Court on Friday extended by six months the term of a three-member commission set up to probe the encounter deaths of four persons accused in the gang rape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad.

In December 2019, the top court had appointed the panel headed by Justice VS Sirpurkar and comprising former Bombay HC Judge RP Soundarbaldota and former CBI Director DR Kaarthikeyan as members to conduct the inquiry within six months.

The court order had come on two PILs filed by advocates GS Mani and Mukesh Kumar Sharma.

Accused Mohammed Arif, Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu, Jolu Shiva, and Jollu Naveen were arrested after the gang rape and murder of the veterinary doctor in November 2019. Police said the accused were killed in an encounter on December 6, 2019, as they tried to flee during collection of evidence at the spot.

A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde and comprising Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian on Friday extended the commission’s term by another six months.

The commission had said in July 2020 that it could not complete the probe due to the nationwide lockdown imposed in March to contain the spread of coronavirus. The commission said its members were unable to carry out spot inspection and hold an open hearing ahead of preparing a report on its investigations.

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Big breaking: Supreme Court green signal for local body elections

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Big breaking: Supreme Court green signal for local body elections

In what could be seen as a big jolt to YSRCP government of Andhra Pradesh, Supreme Court today gave a green signal to local body elections. It has struck off the petitions filed by government of Andhra Pradesh as well as employee unions to halt the local elections details as below.

Government of Andhra Pradesh and state election commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh are at loggerheads since almost 1 year regarding the conduction of a local body elections. Recently High Court of Andhra Pradesh supported State election Commissioner after which he issued notification for local body elections. However government of Andhra Pradesh as well as employee unions decided to go to the apex court to halt the local body elections. The honourable Supreme Court today reportedly lambasted employee unions and questioned why employee unions are interfering with the process of local body elections. At the same time , the honourable Supreme Court opined that elections are also part of the constitutional process and so cannot be halted.

Now we have to wait and see whether the government of Andhra Pradesh and employee union will support state election commissioner in conducting elections or they will continue to defy the verdict of honourable Supreme Court.

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How will courts find out who is a fake baba, asks SC

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How will courts find out who is a fake baba, asks SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a plea seeking action against illegal ashrams run by fake “babas” across the country.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices A. S Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian said: “How will court find out who is a fake baba?”

As senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy, representing Dumpala Ramreddy, a resident of Secunderabad, said that the Akhil Bharatiya Akahara Parishad has prepared a list of fake babas in the country, the Chief Justice asked how could they rely on the Parishad’s decision on identifying fake babas.

Guruswamy replied that it is the apex body of Akaharas and traces its linage to Adi Shankara. But the bench said: “The list has been prepared without hearing them or how does this list come into force.”

She cited the conviction of godman Ram Rahim, and the Chief Justice said: “All the more reason not to go to them. Why do you want the SC to intervene?”

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposed the plea and cited petitioner’s habeas corpus petition in the Delhi High Court seeking custody of his daughter, allegedly been kept in illegal confinement by an alleged godman.

The bench observed that it does not want to disrespect any Akhara Parishad. “How can the Supreme Court enter into this realm. Court cannot look into it,” said the bench.

“Menaka Guruswamy, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this petition. Permission, as sought for, is granted. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn,” the top court said in its order.

In his plea, Ramreddy said: “Though very serious criminal cases were registered against Veerendra Dev Dixit, Asaram Bapu, Ram Rahim baba, etc…, their ashrams are still run with the help of their close associates and the authorities are not verifying the facilities available over there.”

The plea urged the apex court to direct the authorities to frame guidelines in setting up of ‘Ashrams’, citing rape accused Dixit, who ran ‘Adhyatmika Vishwa Vidhyalaya’ at Rohini in Delhi, where his daughter stayed for nearly five years. Following complaints from many girls, this Ashram was raided by a court-appointed panel.

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Big breaking: SC suspends farmer laws, but not indefinitely

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Big breaking: SC suspends farmer laws, but not indefinitely

BJP led NDA government has recently implemented 3 new farmer bills with the aim of reforming agriculture sector completely. But these laws are met with stiff agitation from the farmers and opposition parties. Today the apex court has suspended the farmer laws. Details as below.

Honourable Supreme Court has today stayed the implementation of the farm laws until further orders. But SC also added that this is not indefinite repeal of the laws. The Supreme Court has also formed a four-member committee to submit a report before the court on the farm laws. They Court opined that this issue affects farmers across the country and needed intervention. However, farmers’ response to the verdict is mixed. While they welcomed the suspension of laws, they didn’t like the idea of forming committee to look into this issue further.

We need to wait and see how the union government reacts to this, given the fact that the Honourable Court made strong comments against the central government.

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TATAs drag Jagan Govt to Supreme Court on PPAs

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TATAs drag Jagan Govt to Supreme Court on PPAs

The TATA Group, the country’s foremost industrial corporate company, has decided to take its legal fight against the Jaganmohan Reddy Government to a logical end. They have approached the Supreme Court of India seeking cancellation of the AP GO on their PPAs. Not just the TATAs, even other solar power companies and global brands have also stepped up their legal fight against the AP regime.

Way back in July, 2019, shortly after coming to power in the State, the Jagan Reddy regime issued the GO cancelling the Power Purchase Agreements. The YCP Ministers said that this was done because the previous TDP Government committed irregularities in these agreements.

When the global companies objected to this at the world forums, the Modi Government cautioned the Jagan regime but it went ahead and stuck to its policy.
The power companies filed cases in the High Court. Now, the TATAs went to the Supreme Court saying that the AP DISCOMs owed dues to them pending since August 2018. As a result, financial troubles started for their companies. The TATAs sought transfer of their cases from the High Court to the Supreme Court. The Apex Court said it would hear these cases after the Sankranti holidays.

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SC blow to A B Venkateswara Rao

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SC blow to A B Venkateswara Rao

In a jolt to Andhra Pradesh senior IPS officer and former intelligence chief A B Venkateswara Rao, the Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the High Court’s order lifting the suspension of Venkateswara Rao. The Supreme Court stayed the Andhra Pradesh government’s order suspending Venkateswara Rao.
In May, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has set aside the suspension of Venkateswara Rao and directed the state government to reinstate him to the regular service. However, the Andhra Pradesh government challenged the High Court order in the Supreme Court.
The Jagan government has suspended Venkateswara Rao for alleged involvement in irregularities during the purchase of surveillance equipment from Israeli firm RT Inflatable Objects and awarding the contract to Akasam Advanced System Company, allegedly owned by Rao’s son. Following this, Rao moved CAT challenging the state government’s suspension which dismissed his petition and told the government to go ahead with the investigation by filing cases against the latter.
He later moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court which ordered the state government to reinstate him.

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SC stays media gag order in Amaravati land scam case

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SC stays media gag order in Amaravati land scam case

The Jaganmohan Reddy Government got a huge relief from the Supreme Court on the media gag order relating to former Advocate General Dammalapati Srinivas case. The SC issued a stay order on the media gag order issued earlier by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. The SC bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan stayed the gag order and also issued notices to the respondents. The next hearing was posted for January next year. At the same time, the SC did not interfere with the overall stay order issued by the High Court on the investigation into the charges of land scams in Amaravati. The AP government’s advocate argued in the Supreme Court that though only Dammalapati Srinivas asked for relief in the case, the High Court has applied its order for over 13 respondents. The orders were issued without even the petitioner asking for the same. The State Government’s advocate told the court that a huge corruption scam took place in the Amaravati lands. Transactions on land property were done through benamis. The Government has also written a letter for ordering a CBI probe into the land scam. The AP Government’s advocate asked what was the problem for Dammalapati Srinivas if the land scam was probed.

Out of political ill will, litigation cases were being filed against the AP Chief Minister and his Government in each and every issue. The media gag order was not permissible. There were definite conditions for issuing such an order as was evident from the Sahara case. Dammalapati’s advocates argued that a Capital decision was not a secret thing and all people had come to know about this. Nobody can be prevented from buying lands in the Capital.

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Did SEC ask you to stop welfare schemes: SC to AP govt

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Did SEC ask you to stop welfare schemes: SC to AP govt

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Andhra Pradesh government to inform the state election commission and seek its approval in grounding welfare schemes and programmes.
Mukul Rohtagi, counsel for the Andhra Pradesh government, appealed to the Supreme Court to direct the state election commission to allow the welfare schemes and programs to continue in the state. Mukul Rohtagi appealed to the Supreme  Court to direct SEC to lift and revoke the temporary ban on executing welfare programmes. He said currently there is no model code of conduct, but the state government’s welfare programmes got hindered.
To this, the Supreme Court CJI  Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde asked the AP government counsel if the election commission barred the government from executing its welfare programmes. “Did the state election commission stop the government from going ahead with the welfare programmes,” Justice Bobde asked the state counsel. Further, Justice Bobde observed that it was imperative for the state government to consult the election commission before continuing welfare programmes.
On March 17, the Supreme Court upheld the SEC decision to postpone local body elections in the state but lifted the Model Code of Conduct. The State Election Commission (SEC) had postponed the election process of MPTC/ZPTC and urban local bodies citing the threat of Covid-19 pandemic.  In a tearing hurry, the Jagan government promulugated the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 to reduce the term of SEC to three years from five years. The Andhra Pradesh government removed Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar as SEC and retired Tamil Nadu judge Justice Kangaraj. The AP HC had directed the state government to reinstate Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar as the State election Commissioner (SEC), and also struck down the government’s appointment of Kangaraj as the SEC.

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Supreme Court judge refuses to hear Jagan contempt case

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Supreme Court judge refuses to hear Jagan contempt case
Supreme Court Judge Justice Lalit has stepped aside and refused to take up the contempt of court case against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy today. Justice Lalit has excused himself, saying that he cannot hear this case in view of the fact that he has argued for the respondents in the past.
Justice Lalit has suggested that the case be transferred to some other bench of the Apex Court. The Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice Lalith, Justice Uday and Justice Umesh, is supposed to hear the contempt case today. With the stepping aside of Justice Lalith, the case has to be transferred to another bench.
The case is pertaining to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by GS Mani, Pradeep Kumar and SK Singh. They are pleading for removing Jaganmohan Reddy from the CM police as he had misused his position to level baseless allegations against a sitting Judge of Supreme Court and also judges of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.
The petitioners asked for a deterrent punishment in this respect in order to prevent any such brazen attempt to pass defamatory comments against the courts and the judges. The petitioners have also asked for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the allegations made by the Chief Minister. They also said that the AP CM is facing serious charges in several cases of money laundering and corruption.

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SC reverses Telangana HC order on Diwali crackers

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SC reverses Telangana HC order on Diwali crackers

In a major relief to Diwali cracker seller, the Supreme Court reveresed the Telangana High Court order banning the sale and bursting of crackers.
The Telangana Fire Workers Dealers Association has moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the November 12 order passed by the Telangana High Court banning sale and bursting of crackers. Following the High Court order, the Telangana government banned the sale and the use of fireworks.
Hearing a petition filed by the Telangana Fire Workers Dealers Association, the Supreme Court directed the Telangana government to follow the guidelines issued by the National Green Tribunal. The Supreme Court had directed an eco-friendly Diwali by mandating the use of green crackers
since the air quality in Hyderabad is moderate. The Supreme Court fixed two-hour window for bursting crackers on festival days. The Supreme Court observed that bursting of crackers can be allowed from 8 pm to 10 pm.
In its petition, Telangana Fire Workers Dealers Association has argued that the High Court order which was passed on the eve of Diwali has led to immense financial hardships to its members, especially since firecrackers is a seasonal business.

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Supreme Court to hear anti-Jagan petitions on Nov 16

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Supreme Court to hear anti-Jagan petitions on Nov 16

Finally, the Supreme Court of India has admitted three petitions filed against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s letter to the Chief Justice of India. The petitioners sought stringent and deterrent action against CM Jagan for his baseless allegations against sitting Supreme Court Judge Justice NV Ramana and other members of the judiciary. The Supreme Court decided to take up hearing on these petitions on November 16.

The petitioners also urged for the court to give a show cause notice to the CM. The petitions will come up before the bench consisting of Justice UU Lalith, Justice Vineet Saran and Justice Ravindra Bhat. Among the petitioners is also the Anti-Corruption Council of India Trust. 

Petitioners GS Mani and Pradeep Kumar told the court that CM Jagan made twin mistakes of not just making baseless allegations against the judges but also made his letter to the CJI public in a very mischievous way.

All the petitioners pleaded with the court to take action against the Chief Minister and his Principal Advisor Ajay Kallam Reddy, who released the CJI letter at a press conference in utter contempt of the court.

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Supreme Court notices on TDP Mangalagiri building

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Supreme Court notices on TDP Mangalagiri building

Not a day passes without either the High Court of Andhra Pradesh or the Supreme Court of India passing one order or the other on the issues of AP. Today, the Supreme Court issued notices to the Telugu Desam Party, the AP Government and the CRDA on the TDP Central Office buildings at Mangalagiri. The notices were issued based on a petition filed by YSRCP MLA Challa Ramakrishna Reddy.

The petitioner challenged the High Court’s order on the allotment of land to the TDP during the Chandrababu Naidu regime. The petitioner’s lawyer said that the land allotment was made in violation of the pollution control norms. Top Supreme Court lawyers Prasant Bhushan and Ramesh argued on behalf of the YCP MLA.

The ruling party MLA’s petition was struck down by the High Court in the past. Now, his challenge petition came up for hearing in the Apex Court. The Supreme Court has also given three weeks time to the three respondents to give their replies on the issue. The petitioner has been asking for cancellation of the allotment of land for the TDP. But, the fact is that the TDP has already constructed huge buildings on the land for its party overall activities.

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Petition in SC to remove Jagan as CM

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Petition in SC to remove Jagan as CM

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s letter alleging impropriety by Justice N V Ramana, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and next in line to be Chief Justice, has landed him in a legal soup.

After the Delhi High Court Bar Association took serious objection to Jagan’s letter lowering the dignity of Supreme Court Justice N V Ramana by casting aspersions, two Supreme Court lawyers filed a petition in the top court with an appeal to remove Jagan as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

The two petitioners – G S Mani & Pradeep Kumar Yadav – contended in their plea that Jagan who is facing over 30 criminal cases has been abusing his power and post as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

The Public Interest Litigation filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India (dated 14.10.2020. vide Diary No. 22452/2020) further contended that Jagan, who is facing serious criminal charges, including money laundering and quid pro quo cases, is lowering the image of the judiciary by making scandalous remarks against courts and judges.

The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has written the letter casting aspersions on Supreme Court judge Justice N V Raman in order to malign, tarnish and damage of the senior most judge, the petitioners contended. “The petition is filed seeking action against 3rd respondent (Jagan Mohan Reddy) only to protect the independence and integrity of judiciary and its judges. It is painful that false, vague and political allegations were made against the senior most judge of the Supreme Court only to disturb the independence of judiciary,” the petitioners contended.

Further, the petitioners argued that for the first a Chief Minister of a state has made such false allegations against a senior most Supreme Court judge. A person who is holding the post of head of the state executive should not overtake judiciary by making false allegations against the sitting judges of the Supreme Court. The general public confidence in judiciary is important. If public lose their confidence and faith in the judiciary, the very purpose is defeated, the petitioners argued. The petitioners made “proper authorities representing the government and the state itself” as the other two respondents in the case.

The petitioners, citing a newspaper report, pointed out that 31 criminal cases are pending against Jagan Mohan Reddy as per his own affidavit. The petitioners noted that cases were pending with the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and different police stations in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

The criminal charges include criminal conspiracy, cheating, dishonesty, criminal breach of trust, forgery, criminal misconduct, money laundering and various others. ” Thus we appeal for an appropriate action for his removal as CM of AP and also judicial enquiry constituting internal committee headed by sitting or retired judges of Supreme Court or any authority including CBI over the vague allegation made by Jagan against Justice Ramana,” the petition read.

Jagan in his letter to Chief Justice of India S A Bobde had alleged impropriety by Justice N V Ramana. In the letter, dated October 6, Jagan had accused Justice N V Ramana of “influencing the sittings of the (AP) High Court including the roster of a few honourable judges” and cited “instances of how matters important to Telugu Desam Party (opposition in AP) have been allocated to a few honourable judges…”. The letter complete with annexures, has also accused the state judiciary and five of its judges of “bias…towards Telugu Desam Party and its interests, in the nature of orders passed staying investigation, staying enquiry and the rest…”.

Justice Ramana is likely to be the next CJI in April 2021, after Justice Bobde demits office.

In the letter, Jagan had suggested Justice N V Ramana had favoured former chief minister and TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and the judge’s daughters had purchased land under questionable circumstances in Amaravati before the site was chosen for the new Andhra capital. Last month, the Andhra Pradesh High Court had restrained the media from reporting about allegations of corruption in land deals in Amaravati. Coming from a CM facing a large number of cases, the allegations have to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Earlier in the day, the Delhi High Court Bar Association stated that casting aspersions on a Supreme Court sitting judge is “clearly a dishonest attempt at overawing the independence of judiciary and tantamount to contempt of the Honorable court. It is a blatant attempt to shake the confidence of the public at large in the judicial institution which has been performing its duty of due administration of justice assigned by the Constitution of India.”

In a statement, the Delhi High Court Bar Association strongly condemned Jagan for writing a letter casting aspersions on the Supreme Court judge. The Delhi High Court Bar Association stated that it unequivocally, categorically and in the strongest possible terms condemns the allegations cast upon Justice N V Ramana.

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Petition filed against CM Jagan in Supreme Court

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Petition filed against CM Jagan in Supreme Court

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy. The petitioner urged the court to issue a show cause notice to AP CM why action should not be initiated against him for his Government holding press conferences to defame sitting judges of the High Court of AP and also those of the Supreme Court. In doing so, the AP Chief Minister has crossed all limits.

The petition was filed by advocate Sunil Kumar Singh, who maintained that the anti-judiciary press conferences were undoubtedly a violation of the Constitution. CM Jagan violated the Articles 121 and 211 of the Constitution. The Chief Minister, in his swearing in, took oath to respect the Constitution and the judiciary but has now transgressed it. Stringent action should be taken against the AP CM for preventing him from holding such press conferences again in future.

The latest petition comes at a time when the judiciary and the advocates fraternity were stunned across the country over the recent public remarks made by the Jagan Reddy Government. The press conference mainly targetted SC judge Justice NV Ramana and AP Chief Justice JK Maheswari.

The open attack came just a few days after CM Jagan Reddy met Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on issues relating to AP.

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Supreme Court bars arrest of Dr Ramesh Babu

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Supreme Court bars arrest of Dr Ramesh Babu

The Jaganmohan Reddy Government has taken it as a prestige issue to arrest Dr. Ramesh Babu, managing director of the Dr. Ramesh Hospitals, in the Swarna Palace fire case. It has even gone to the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court’s orders against further probe into the palace fire till further orders.

Now, the Supreme Court has lifted the High Court stay on the investigation but at the same time, it barred the State Government from unilaterally taking Dr. Ramesh Babu into custody for questioning. However, the High Court may take a decision on this.

The Supreme Court allowed the State Government to go ahead with investigation into the Swarna Palace fire. It has not taken into consideration the AP Government’s contention that Dr. Ramesh Babu has been absconding without cooperating with the investigation. All those matters may be placed before the High Court which can take a final decision on that.

Mukul Rohatgi, who has been arguing the CM’s personal cases, has once again argued for the AP Government on the Swarna Palace fire tragedy which led to the death of 10 Covid patients. Dr. Ramesh Babu has got a relief for now but it is not sure how the AP Government’s investigation will give new twists in future.

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SC sends notice to ‘T’ on Ayushman Bharat

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SC sends notice to ‘T’ on Ayushman Bharat

Telangana BJP senior leader Perala Shekhar on Friday moved the Supreme Court complaining that the KCR government has not been implementing the central government’s health scheme Ayushman Bharat Yojana.

Hearing the petition, the Supreme Court issued notice to the Telangana government asking it to explain why it has failed to implement the Ayushman Bharat Yojana scheme. The apex court issued notices to Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and gave two weeks’ time to the state government to file a counter-affidavit.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had rejected the Ayushman Bharat scheme in favor of the state’s Aarogya Sri medical health cover scheme for the poor. In the past, he had stated that the state government is not interested in wasting public money on central schemes which are not beneficial to the people. KCR also claimed that Arogya Sri was far more beneficial and had a wider outreach than the Ayushman Bharat scheme.

In the petition, BJP leader Shekar appealed to the Supreme Court to direct the KCR government to implement the central government’s Ayushman Bharat scheme that covers corona treatment. He also contended that the Ayushman Bharat covers various serious ailments which are not included in the Arogya Sri and provided treatment free of cost to the patients. He alleged that the TS government was denying medical facility extended by the union government to Telangana people. In the petition, he also pointed out that several non-BJP ruling states like Odisha and West Bengal were not implementing the central health scheme.

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SC setback to AP govt English medium move

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SC setback to AP govt English medium move

In yet another setback to the Jagan government, the Supreme Court on Thursday declined to grant an appeal for stay on the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s verdict on April 15 scrapping the GO issued to make English compulsory in government schools in Andhra Pradesh.

In its Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court, the Andhra Pradesh government had argued that 80% of parents showed inclination for English education to be imparted to their children and accordingly the government was working towards implementing the same. However, the High Court had scrapped its GOs (81 and 85) thereby throwing a spanner in the government’s move to implement English education compulsory in government schools, the Andhra Pradesh had contended in the Supreme Court. In its order, the High Court had observed that the GO is against the Constitution, several judgements of the Supreme Court and the Right to Education Act and that parents’ cannot decide in which language children should be taught.

Hearing the arguments of the Andhra Pradesh government, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give a stay on the High Court.

While declining the interim stay on the HC order, the three bench judge Justice Chandrachud, Joseph and Indu Malhotra stated that the interim stay petition will again be heard on Septmber 25.

The Supreme Court asked the government to file a counter and put off the hearing by next three weeks.
Justice Chandrachud inquired about the implications of the HC order and stated that Section 29 (2) of the RTE Act stipulates that the medium should be in mother tongue “so far as it is applicable” . “It seems the HC has taken this into account,” Justice Chandrachud observed.

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Supreme Court asks CBI to investigate Sushant Singh Rajput’s case

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Supreme Court asks CBI to investigate Sushant Singh Rajput’s case

The Supreme Court of India asked the CBI to take over the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput after which the nation jumped with joy. There have been several irregularities in the case expressed Sushant Singh Rajput’s family and his father KK Singh filed a complaint with Patna cops accusing Rhea Chakraborty responsible for his death. The Supreme Court asked CBI to handover the case asking the agency to investigate the matter at the earliest. The Supreme Court asked the cops of the states not to intervene in the investigation.

The Mumbai cops have been asked all the investigation details and evidence to be submitted to the CBI officials. Bollywood actors responded immediately on a swift note hoping that the real truth will be unveiled soon. Vikas Singh, the family lawyer of Sushant Singh Rajput said that this is the victory of the family. Sushant Singh Rajput’s fans welcomed the Supreme Court’s move. Sushant Singh Rajput passed away on June 14th in his Bandra residence and the news created a sensation across the country.

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Jagan govt moves SC, seeks stay on HC order on Amaravati

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Jagan govt moves SC, seeks stay on HC order on Amaravati

Despite receiving several setbacks in both the High Court and the Supreme Court, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy seems to have not learnt any lesson and continues to be in a defiant mode.

After the High Court directed the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government to maintain status quo with regard to Amaravati as the capital city, the Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the HC order.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on August 4 directed the State government to maintain status quo for 10 days on the shifting of government offices from Amaravati.

A dvision bench comprising Justice Rakesh Kumar, Justice Akula Venkata Seshasai, and Justice M Satyanarayana Murthy directed the Jagan government to file a counter to the petitions by August 14, but an impatient Andhra Pradesh government has now filed a Special Leave Petition seeking a stay on HC order.

The Modi government has already washed off its hands on the issue of shifting capital to Vizag from Amaravati by making its stand clear that it is a state subject and that the central government has no role to play.

The central government also filed an affidavit in the Andhra Pradesh High Court that it has no role in capital creation.

Further, the union government contended that it is the prerogative of a state to decide the location of its capital city. With the counter affidavit, it has now become clear that the Modi government will not interfere in the decision of the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh to shift the administrative capital of the state from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam.

Earlier, the High Court had sought complete details on the estimated cost of construction of the capital city in Amaravati and how much public money was spent so far.

Hearing a batch of petitions, a three-bench judge comprising Justice Rakesh Kumar, Justice M Satyanarayana Murthy and Justice A V Sesha Sai asked advocate Unnam Muralidhar to submit the details over capital construction in Amaravati.

The court served notices to the State Accountant General asking him to submit a detailed report on the source of the funds. The case was posted for the next hearing on August 14.

On his part, Unnam Muralidhar submitted before the court that so far Rs 52,000 crore had been spent as per the AP Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) records.

The High Court advocate stated that more than Rs 52,000 crore was spent on infrastructure, government buildings, water, power supply and other works.

The High Court expressed deep concern over the money that had so far been spent on construction of the capital in Amaravati.

The High Court asked a volley of questions such as how many buildings were completed, how much money was spent and the outstanding amount to be paid to the contractors. The court asked the government to submit complete details.

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