Telangana HC quashes OMC case against IAS officer Srilakshmi

In a major relief to senior IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, Y. Srilakshmi, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday quashed charges against her in the Obulapuram mining case filed by the CBI.

Hyderabad: In a major relief to the IAS officer Srilaxmi, Justice C Sumalatha of the Telangana High Court on Tuesday discharged AP cadre officer from the Obulapuram mining cases.

The court found that there are no grounds for framing of charges against the officer and held offences of conspiracy and preventive corruption act are not attracted.

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It may be recalled that she was implicated by the CBI in the year 2012 based on the allegations that she has cooperated with Gail Janardan Reddy for illegal permissions to the Obulapuram mining company.

Petitioner contended that Srilaxmi was appointed as Secretary for industries and mining in the year 2006, but the preliminary GO granting permission to the mining company was granted in 2005.

Petitioner said, before her appointment GO was passed and she was falsely implicated. She approached High Court in a revision, challenging the rejection of her discharge application by the CBI court, Hyderabad.

Discharging her from the charges, the judge granted liberty to the adjudicating authority for framing charges against her if any other offences are attracted.

Raja Singh Detention case

Advocate General BS Prasad, told the court that one year preventive detention to Goshamahal MLA Raja Singh was inadequate, while continuing his arguments before the two judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising justice A Abhishek Reddy and Justice Juvvadi Sridevi.

The AG further pointed out that Raja Singh‘s utternaces were habitually provocative. Referring to various verdicts of the courts, he argued whether a certain action was a law and order problem or one of public order varies from case to case and no general principle could be laid down. “ Due to his statement even a police station was attacked is it not breach of public order? “ he said.

In his arguments, Raja Singh’s counsel senior counsel Ravichandar wondered how ‘Fatwa’ on the word ‘Aka’ (from the video attributed to Raja Singh) could be relied upon by the state? Pointing out observations of the Apex Court he said there is no fatwa under the Indian Constitution..

He said detention based on fatwa is initiated by extraneous consideration. “In any event it must go for the simple reason that such a ground was not stated in the detention order.” He also pointed out that the standard list of synonyms of Aka did not include “The Prophet”. He faulted the way in which 41-A notice under criminal code was served on Singh and told court that within hours of service of notice, the police detained Singh. The panel will continue hearing the case on Wednesday.