Telangana High Court issues notices on Congress defections
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Speaker of the Assembly and Chairman of the Legislative Council for being presiding officers of the tribunal under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution in cases related to the merger of the Congress Legislature Party with the TRS. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Raghavender Si-ngh Chauhan and Just-ice Shameem Akhter issued notices to the Leg-islative Council secretary, the Council Chair-man in his position as presiding officer of the tribunal, the Election Commission and the four MLCs who were merged into the TRS in the Legislative Council. The bench also issued notices to the Speaker and Assembly Secretary, the Election Commis-sion and 10 Congress MLAs while dealing another petition filed by Congress Legislature Party leader Mallu Bha-tti Vikramarka and TPCC president N. Utta-m Kumar Reddy on April 29. Another petition filed by Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy, and Mr Mallu Bhatti on June 10, after the merger of the MLAs, was listed for hearing on Wednesday before a Bench headed by Justice Chauhan.