Telangana of SC/ST hostels irks High Court
The bench sought information about the mechanism to curb scanning centres which reveal the gender of the foetus.
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Monday sought the response of the government within four weeks over the pathetic conditions in government-run hostels for students from the SC, ST, BC communities.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Abhishek Reddy was dealing with a suo motu taken-up public interest litigation over negligence in the maintenance of the hostels.
The PIL was taken up based on a letter addressed by Justice P. Naveen Rao to the Chief Justice enclosing reports on pathetic conditions of welfare hostels.
In another case, the division bench issued notices to the government to respond on the rampant sex determination by the some scanning centre without any supervision. The bench sought information about the mechanism to curb scanning centres which reveal the gender of the foetus.