Government files report on Covid-19 curtailing steps taken in Telangana State

Hyderabad: The High Court division bench headed by Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Bollam Vijaysen Reddy heard the batch of 26 pleas on Covid-19 matters in the State and took on record the 279-page voluminous report filed by the State government enumerating the steps it has taken in curtailing and containing the prevalence of Covid-19 in the State.

Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan, while addressing all the counsels representing the petitioners in the batch of 26 petitions, said that he cannot adjudicate the batch of petitions at this stage in view of his transfer to Uttarakhand High Court as its Chief Justice.

When Chikkudu Prabhakar, counsel for one of the petitioners, insisted the Chief Justice to hear the batch in view of the 2nd wave of coronavirus hitting the State and in view of the increase in deaths due to the virus, the CJ responded by saying that the new incumbent CJ for the High Court of Telangana Justice Hima Kohli, has monitored the entire Covid 19 cases in Delhi and expected the same to happen here in the Telangana High Court. Further, the CJ bench adjourned the contempt case against the Director, Public Health and Family Welfare, G Srinivas Rao "Sine Die" in view of the stay orders passed by the Supreme Court on the contempt proceedings, issued by the Telangana High Court. The matter is adjourned to December 31.