Telangana HC adjourns case on ‘Bad Boy Billionaires: India’ documentary

Telangana HC on Friday inconclusively heard the case pertaining to documentary ‘Bad Boy Billionaires: India’

Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A Abhishek Reddy on Friday inconclusively heard the case pertaining to documentary ‘Bad Boy Billionaires: India’.

The Netflix original documentary web-series focuses on the greed, fraud and corruption around the built up of businesses of four prominent Indian businessmen. Though the documentaries related to Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya and Subrata Roy were already released on the OTT platform, the release of documentary on Satyam Ramalinga Raju was subject to outcome of the present case filed by Netflix. After hearing the Senior Counsel Neeraj Kishan Kaul representing Netflix for the entire morning session, the panel adjourned the case to December 04 for further hearing.

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Promotions of Sr Asst in Subordinate courts

The same panel directed the Registrar, High Court to file a counter in matter pertaining to promotions of Senior Assistant in the Subordinate courts of Telangana. S Rajashekar and 6 other field assistants working in the Civil Courts at Hyderabad and Secunderabad filed this case challenging an order of the government made in May 2018 issued by the Secretary, Telangana Legal Affairs Legislative Affairs and Justice that imposed a condition of minimum service of 10 years for Field Assistants for promotion to the post of Senior Assistant. The panel adjourned the case by 2 weeks.

Relief for CMD of Singareni Collieries Company

Justice Laxman of the Telangana High Court on Friday directed the Kothagudem police not to arrest N Sridhar, chairman and managing director (CMD) of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited. The plea was filed by Sridhar seeking directions to quash the case against him. Yendapally Anand, a dismissed employee filed a complaint stating that the record of the company showed Rs 38 Lakhs under the category ‘nature of fraud’ and he alleged the actual fraud amounts to more than Rs 50 lakhs.

Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner filed 7 more cases with similar allegations and the court granted stay of proceedings in all cases. The petitioner pointed out that the period for which fraud was alleged he was not the Chairman. The judge directing the police not to arrest the CMD however made clear to the police that they can continue with the investigation in accordance with law. The case is adjourned to December 14 for further hearing.

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