Supreme Court orders on Group-1 binding: Hyderabad High Court

Hyderabad: Giving an end to the controversy related to recruitments for Group 1 posts pursuant to the notification issued in 2011, the Hyderabad High Court ordered AP and TS and the Public Service Commissions of both the states, to abide by its June 29 order in a contempt case.

A division bench comprising Justices P.V. Sanjay Kumar and B. Siva Sankara Rao was refusing to grant leave for certain candidates to file fresh petitions as they were not heard while granting the interim orders with regard to the dispute that arose of the alleged wrong answers of six questions in the main examination held in September 2012.

The bench turned down the argument of the petitioners that that main issues in the writ petitions would still be open for adjudication in view of pending of petitions before the High Court and the orders passed by the Supreme Court are related to an interlocutory order passed by the HC.

The bench observed that once the Supreme Court allowed Civil Appeal directing the APPSC to re-do the exercise from the stage of the preliminary examination by deleting six  questions, all that was done by the APPSC pursuant to the preliminary examination have to be set at naught.

The bench made it clear that it was not open to candidates who appeared for the main examination in September, 2012, to wake up at this late stage at their own leisure and seek to abrogate the entire exercise undertaken by the Tribunal, the HC and the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court orders have to be given effect to and implemented in true letter and spirit, it said.

Agri Gold assets list submitted
The AP government on Friday submitted the market value of 26 properties belonging to the Agro Gold Group of Companies located in the limits of the CRDA and also in Nellore, Prakasam, Anantapur, Kadapa and Kurnool districts of AP and Mahbubnagar districts of TS to the Hyderabad High Court.

A division bench comprising Justices V. Ramasubramanian and S.V. Bhatt was dealing with a petition by the Telangana Agri Gold Customers and Agents Welfare Association seeking either a CBI or ED probe into the Agri Gold deposits scam.

When AP A-G D. Srinivas handed over the list of the value of properties, the bench told him not to disclose the value and keep the list in a sealed cover.