Telangana High Court relief for engineering colleges

Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Justice A Rajashekara Reddy and Justice T Vinod Kumar on Tuesday granted permission to certain private engineering colleges such as ACE Engineering College, Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology and others to participate in the second phase of counseling and directed Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University to […]

Hyderabad: A two-judge Bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Justice A Rajashekara Reddy and Justice T Vinod Kumar on Tuesday granted permission to certain private engineering colleges such as ACE Engineering College, Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology and others to participate in the second phase of counseling and directed Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University to treat such colleges as affiliated colleges for the academic Year 2021-2022.

A few private colleges introduced new programmes such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things and other streams according to the approval issued by All Indian Council of Technical Education. The petitioners pointed out that they required permission from the State government only for new courses but not new programmes. The counsel appearing for the JNTUH pointed out that the said matter was pending before the State government. The Bench directed JNTU-H to include the petitioner colleges in the second phase of counseling and treat the affiliation of such colleges as valid for the 2021-22 academic year.

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Jail term stayed

The same Bench stayed the jail term and fine awarded to B Srinivas, the then Circle Inspector of Police, Kumrambheem Asifabad District in contempt of court matter. The Bench was dealing with an appeal filed by the officer against a contempt order issued against him. One Routhu Soudabai approached the court contending that the police official had willfully violated court orders. A single judge held the contention and ordered imprisonment and a fine against the official. Routhu Soudabai complained that his land was acquired without following the procedure contemplated under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act. The Bench stayed the punishment and adjourned the matter by 4 weeks.

No further cases

Justice K Lakshman of the Telangana High Court directed the police not to file further cases against journalist Naveen Kumar alias Teenmaar Mallanna under the same crime. The judge was dealing with a petition filed by K Mathamma, the journalist’s wife. The petitioner complained that the police, under the guise of investigation, was harassing her husband. The judge directed the police to follow the proper procedure laid down under the CRPC and issue notices to the journalist for cases registered against him. Justice Lakshman further directed the police not to resort to any vindictive attitude and not to harass the petitioner or her husband in any manner under the guise of investigation.

Pharmacist posts: Orders reserved

Justice Vijaysen Reddy reserved the orders in a matter pertaining to the Revised Merit List of the recruitment notification to the posts of Pharmacist Grade II. The judge was dealing with a writ petition filed by one G Hari Babu and other aspirants for the said posts. They complained that certain candidates were awarded points based on service and seniority. The petitioners contended that outsourcing became a source of cheap labour for the government and without inviting applications for regular appointments till 2017 and without regularising their jobs, the government was exploiting them. Hearing both sides at length, Justice Vijaysen reserved the case for orders.

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