SC sets aside AP high court stay on probe into Amaravati land scam
Deccan ChronicleVijayawada: The Supreme Court has set aside the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordering a stay of two GOs to probe the Amaravati land scam and opined that the HC is expected, instead, to decide and dispose of the writ petitions. It would have been better, had the HC permitted the contending parties to complete the pleadings and thereafter decided on the writ petitions.” “It has also been brought to our notice that the petitioners did file an application to implead the Union of India and the Enforcement Directorate but the AP HC dismissed such an application by issuing a separate order, inter alia holding that the presence of the proposed respondents was not required. There is no doubt in our mind that the Union of India is a proper and necessary party to be arrayed as a respondent in the petitions.” State government counsel Niranjan Reddy submitted that the AP HC stayed further proceedings on two GOs on the ground that the new government cannot not be permitted to overturn the decisions of the previous government. Original writ petitioners’ counsel Siddarth Dave submitted that the present appeals were against the interim stay order issued by the AP HC and the main writ petitions were yet to be considered, decided and disposed of.