MLAs’ poaching case: Telangana High Court asks State to move SC

Supreme Court to hear poaching case on February 17

Hyderabad: The division Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Tukaramji observed that once it had dismissed the MLA poaching case appeals, the single judge cannot invoke his power to hear any plea in the case. Any order against our order will be in Supreme Court only, the Chief Justice said speaking for the Bench.

On Tuesday, Justice B Vijaysen Reddy directed Advocate General BS Prasad to seek clarification from the division Bench on entertaining an interim application for suspending the transfer of the investigation to CBI. Accordingly, the Advocate General made a request before the Chief Justice Bench with a plea to accord permission to Justice B Vijaysen Reddy to hear the Interim Application filed by the State.

The Bench observed that the single judge had passed an order transferring the investigation on December 26, 2022, and as the division Bench had dismissed all the appeals against the said order, the State could only go to the apex court. The State later moved the Supreme Court, which will hear the plea on February 17.