Telangana High Court awards jail terms for 3 senior officials in land case
3 years, 9 months ago

Telangana High Court awards jail terms for 3 senior officials in land case

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has punished three senior bureaucrats with various terms of simple imprisonment after they were convicted for contempt of court in relation to some land deals. The court pulled up Siddipet collector P. Venkatrami Reddy, IAS officer Krishna Bhaskar who served as Siddipet collector for eight months and is now Rajanna Siricilla collector, and erstwhile revenue divisional officer of Siddipet Jayachandra Reddy, saying they were guilty of wilful disobedience of the court’s interim order. The court held the officials guilty and sentenced Jayachandra Reddy for simple imprisonment of four months and a fine of Rs 2,000. Collector P. Venkatrami Reddy shall suffer simple imprisonment for three months and a fine of Rs 2,000.

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Telangana High Court Quashes FIR Against Junior Civil Judges Accused Under SC/ST Act By Colleague
7 hours, 23 minutes ago

Telangana High Court Quashes FIR Against Junior Civil Judges Accused Under SC/ST Act By Colleague

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court has granted relief to two Junior Civil Judges in a long pending case of 10 years, wherein they were charged under Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act, 1989. “It is pertinent to mention that respondent No.5 has lodged a complaint against the petitioners on 09.10.2015, subsequent to the report submitted by the …

Telangana HC Orders Authorities to Pay Compensation for Land
5 days, 2 hours ago

Telangana HC Orders Authorities to Pay Compensation for Land

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court expressed anger over the revenue divisional officer, tahsildar and MPDO of Yadadri-Bhongir district for their scant respect for the orders passed by the Court for payment of compensation to an octogenarian, from whom the government took land unauthorisedly long ago. Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy was dealing with a contempt petition filed by 86-year-old Raheemuddin, who …

Rs 5k fine for filing false contempt case in Telangana
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Rs 5k fine for filing false contempt case in Telangana

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Stating that strict action would be initiated against individuals who waste the court’s valuable time, Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti of the Telangana HC on Friday imposed a Rs 5,000 fine on a petitioner for filing a false contempt case and directed that the amount be contributed to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. During the hearing, Additional Advocate General Tera …

Legal Briefs | Govt officers in Telangana face contempt heat in land acquisition case
1 month ago

Legal Briefs | Govt officers in Telangana face contempt heat in land acquisition case

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Justice T. Vinod Kumar of the Telangana High Court initiated contempt proceedings against senior government officials for failure to comply with court orders directing payment of enhanced compensation in a decade-old land acquisition case. Dissatisfied with the initial compensation, petitioner M. Balakrishna Reddy sought a reference under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and …

Accused Convicted in Caste-Based Assault Case in Srikakulam
1 month ago

Accused Convicted in Caste-Based Assault Case in Srikakulam

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: The special court for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has sentenced N. Mukunda Reddy to three years of imprisonment for a caste-based assault that occurred in April 2022. Phanikumar, sentencing Mukunda Reddy under Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act to three years of simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000. According to court …

Court awards 3 year jail term in Panchkula land grab case
7 months, 1 week ago

Court awards 3 year jail term in Panchkula land grab case

Hindustan Times  

In connection with preparing a fake will to grab the land of Janendra Gurukul School, local court awarded 3 year jail to Sukhwinder Singh. It was alleged that GS Virk, the then DRO; Narinder Singh, the then naib tehsildar; kanungo Arun Dutt and others, after taking hefty ₹2-crore bribe from Sukhwinder and others, tried to sanction the valuable land of …

The Complete Supreme Court Annual Digest- 2023 [Part-XVI]
7 months, 2 weeks ago

The Complete Supreme Court Annual Digest- 2023 [Part-XVI]

Live Law  

Prevention of Dangerous Activities Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Dacoits, Drug-Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Land Grabbers, Spurious Seed Offenders, Insecticide Offenders, Fertiliser Offenders, Food Adulteration Offenders, Fake Document Offenders, Scheduled Commodities Offenders, Forest Offenders, Gaming Offenders, Sexual Offenders, Explosive Substances Offenders, Arms Offenders, Cyber Crime Offenders and White Collar or Financial Offenders Act 1986; Section 3 - …

Telangana HC Issues One-month Jail Term to Nandu Kumar in Deccan Kitchen Case
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana HC Issues One-month Jail Term to Nandu Kumar in Deccan Kitchen Case

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Monday sentenced K. Nandu Kumar, organiser of Deccan Kitchen hotel, to one month of simple imprisonment for violating court orders over construction on a property he was renting from popular actor Daggubati Venkatesh. Justice K. Lakshman on Monday faulted Nandu Kumar for violating a court order dated August 10, 2021, prohibiting Nandu Kumar and …

Hyderabad Court Gives 5-Year Jail for Former Railway Officials in Question Leak Case
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Hyderabad Court Gives 5-Year Jail for Former Railway Officials in Question Leak Case

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Principal Special Judge for CBI cases has sentenced 10 individuals to five years of imprisonment, including the former chairman of Railway Recruitment Board, Mumbai, and the then CEO of Hasan-Mangalore Rail Development Corporation for the leakage of recruitment test papers in 2010. Former RRB chairman Satendra Mohan Sharma, will have to pay a fine of Rs 1.75 lakh …

Telangana grants remission to 231 convicts
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana grants remission to 231 convicts

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana state government granted remission to as many as 231 convicts on the occasion of Republic Day on Friday. The State Home department released a Government Order on January 24, 2024, granting Special Remission through the powers vested in the Governor under Article 161 of the Indian Constitution. A total of 212 convicts serving life time sentences and …

39,24,107 Cases Disposed Off in National Lok Adalat
11 months, 3 weeks ago

39,24,107 Cases Disposed Off in National Lok Adalat

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: During the National Lok Adalat held on Saturday in Telangana, 39,24,107 cases were amicably settled as the litigants involved reached agreements. At the Telangana High Court, Justice J. Sreenivas Rao and former judge Justice G. Sri Devi presided over Lok Adalat Benches, successfully settling 285 cases, including civil revision petitions and writ petitions related to services and other matters. …

Telangana High Court Upholds Legal Limits on Lok Ayukta\'s Authority
1 year, 1 month ago

Telangana High Court Upholds Legal Limits on Lok Ayukta\'s Authority

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has said that the Lok Ayukta cannot cross the limits imposed by law while issuing orders related to revenue-related issues. Dealing with a petition requesting the court to set aside an order issued by the Lok Ayukta for the recovery of compensation paid to ineligible persons, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and …

Pay up for unauthorised constructions: Telangana HC
1 year, 2 months ago

Pay up for unauthorised constructions: Telangana HC

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A two-judge bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N V Shravan Kumar on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the demand notice of the District Collector towards regularization fee. Harender Prasad, Special Government Pleader contended that if an application is made for regularization of unauthorized construction by encroaches and a sum is deemed …

Telangana: Two get lifer for killing Dalit Man in Saroornagar
1 year, 2 months ago

Telangana: Two get lifer for killing Dalit Man in Saroornagar

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The judge of the special court for SC & ST cases Afroz Akthar on Friday sentenced Syed Mobin Ahmed and his brother-in-law Mohammed Masood Ahmed to life imprisonment for the murder of a Dalit man, Billipuram Nagaraju, husband of Mobin’s sister Syeda Ashrin Sultana, at Saroornagar in May 2022. The court awarded them four life imprisonment sentences on each …

Telangana HC suspends Mankhal 2BHK flat list
1 year, 2 months ago

Telangana HC suspends Mankhal 2BHK flat list

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Justice T. Vinod Kumar of the Telangana High Court suspended the allotment of 2BHK flats at Mankhal to non-residents, on a writ petition filed by residents of Mankhal, Maheshwaram mandal. 5,000 costs for delay: Justice C. Sumalatha of the Telangana High Court imposed Rs 5,000 costs and faulted the government and the forest department for failing to file its …

Telangana man gets lifer for killing wife, court awards Rs 10 lakh to minor children
1 year, 3 months ago

Telangana man gets lifer for killing wife, court awards Rs 10 lakh to minor children

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a first in Telangana, the I Additional District and Sessions Judge at Bhongir awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to the two minor children of a woman identified as Rapaka Kavitha, who was brutally murdered by her husband at Bhongir in Yadadri Bhongir district in 2019. While her husband Rapaka Nagaraju was sentenced to life imprisonment, their two children …

Telangana Court Awards Compensation to Children of Murdered Woman
1 year, 3 months ago

Telangana Court Awards Compensation to Children of Murdered Woman

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a first in Telangana, the I Additional District and Sessions Judge at Bhongir awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to two minor children of a woman, Rapaka Kavitha, who was murdered by her husband in Yadadri Bhongir district in 2019. While the accused, R. Nagaraju, was sentenced to life imprisonment, their two children were the main witness in the …

Civic babu, educational centre head get 6-month jail
1 year, 3 months ago

Civic babu, educational centre head get 6-month jail

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday sentenced municipal department higher executive P. Satya Babu and Vishwa Bharati Educational Institute president M. Ratna Reddy to six months of imprisonment and penalised them Rs2,000, each. In a case of violating court orders over construction, Justice K. Lakshman issued the sentence on the grounds that they, wilfully and deliberately, violated court orders …

Andhra Pradesh High Court Sentences IAS Officer To Two Weeks Imprisonment For Willful Defiance Of Court Orders
1 year, 5 months ago

Andhra Pradesh High Court Sentences IAS Officer To Two Weeks Imprisonment For Willful Defiance Of Court Orders

Live Law  

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has sentenced IAS officer Praveen Kumar, who was the Collector of Visakhapatnam in 2017, and ordered him to pay a fine of Rs 2000 for wilful defiance of court orders. Subrahmanyam, counsel for the petitioner, contented that despite his right being identified and upheld by the High Court on two different occasions, the Collector had …

Telangana HC's Verdicts: Appointments, Desilting, Compensation, and More
1 year, 6 months ago

Telangana HC's Verdicts: Appointments, Desilting, Compensation, and More

Deccan Chronicle  

Reassess Appointment of PSC Members, TS Told Hyderabad: A two-judge bench of the Telangana High Court on Friday remanded a matter pertaining to the appointment of members of TS Public Service Commission. HC allows desilting in River Manair Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N. Tukaramji of the Telangana High Court on Friday disposed a batch of writ petitions challenging …

Telangana High Court Commutes Death Penalty of Three In Gang Rape And Murder Case, Sentences Them To Life Imprisonment Till Last Breath
1 year, 7 months ago

Telangana High Court Commutes Death Penalty of Three In Gang Rape And Murder Case, Sentences Them To Life Imprisonment Till Last Breath

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court has commuted the death penalty of three convicts in a case of gang rape and murder of a Schedule Caste women in 2019. The court held that the prosecution has established by leading cogent and convincing evidence that on 24.11.2019, while the deceased was going towards Ramnaik Thanda, the accused followed her and when she reached …

Police penalised for highhanded behaviour against woman advocate
1 year, 9 months ago

Police penalised for highhanded behaviour against woman advocate

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A two-judge bench of the Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the state to pay compensation for violating the protection of life and personal liberty of a practising woman lawyer. The bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N. Tukaramji heard a writ plea filed by Eunice L. Chawngthu, a practising advocate of the High Court, who complained …

Telangana HC rules remission is not an indefeasible right of convicts
1 year, 11 months ago

Telangana HC rules remission is not an indefeasible right of convicts

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court held on Saturday that remission is not an indefeasible right of convicts, and they cannot seek premature release on the sole ground that they have completed 18 years of sentence and 24 years of sentence including remission. GO 30 said that convicted male prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for life and who had undergone an actual …

Telangana High Court Stays Govt's Order Allocating Nearly ₹60 Crores To Contest Contempt Cases Against Officials
3 years, 4 months ago

Telangana High Court Stays Govt's Order Allocating Nearly ₹60 Crores To Contest Contempt Cases Against Officials

Live Law  

In a significant move, the Telangana High Court, earlier this week, suspended the operation of the State Government order which allocated nearly rupees 60 Crores to fight contempt cases pending in the High Court against bureaucrats.The Bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy issued a notice to the State of Telangana directing it to file a …

Telangana High Court slams unusual haste' by state in Etala probe
3 years, 7 months ago

Telangana High Court slams unusual haste' by state in Etala probe

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday found fault with the Medak district collector and other officials in conducting a survey and inspection in the lands of Jamuna Hatcheries, which belongs to the family members of former minister Etela Rajender, without issuing notices or intimation to them. Stating that prima facie there has been a serious violation of the principles …

Wilful Disobedience: Telangana High Court Holds District Collector Guilty Of Contempt; Sentences To Three Months
3 years, 9 months ago

Wilful Disobedience: Telangana High Court Holds District Collector Guilty Of Contempt; Sentences To Three Months

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court recently held a District Collector and two others guilty of contempt of court for wilful disobedience of its order restraining dispossession of certain farmers from their agricultural lands for the purpose of building a reservoir. In its order, the Single Bench also rejected a contention raised by the District Collector that he was not holding office …

Telangana HC summons 2 top TS officials, pulls them for ignoring court directions
3 years, 9 months ago

Telangana HC summons 2 top TS officials, pulls them for ignoring court directions

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has summoned principal secretaries Vikas Raj and K. Ramakrishna Rao for personal appearance to explain why they should not be punished in a contempt case because of willful disobedience towards court directions. Justice Rao issued summons to them in a contempt case filed by 46 petitioners, who are working for decades as sweepers and full-time …

Telangana HC jails Sircilla collector, 2 officials for contempt of court
3 years, 9 months ago

Telangana HC jails Sircilla collector, 2 officials for contempt of court

Deccan Chronicle  

Ramachandra Rao of the Telangana High Court on Tuesday sentenced Rajanna Sircilla district collector D. Krishna Bhaskar, joint collector Yasmin Basha and land acquisition officer N. Srinivasa Rao, the revenue divisional officer, to three months simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000 for disobeying court orders. The order was passed on a contempt case that was filed by 11 …

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