HC to hear petitions on allocation of IAS and IPS officers

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court will hear a batch of petitions filed by IAS and IPS officers belonging to AP Cadre and serving in Telangana State here on Friday.

The batch of 13 individual petitions filed by civil servants, including 10 IAS officers-Ronald Rose, Anantharamu, S.S. Rawat, Amrapali Katta, Srijana Gummalla, C. Harikiran, Sivasankar Lotheti, Prashanti, Karuna Vakati, Vani Prasad-and IPS officers-DGP Anjani Kumar, Abhilasha Bisht and Abhishek Mohanty- will be heard by the Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan division bench of the High Court.

Recently, the High Court sent senior IAS officer Somesh Kumar to AP, after serving as the chief secretary post for a long time. In this backdrop, listing of the cases assumes significance.