The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday accused Supreme Court Justice NV Ramana and the state high court of attempting to destabilize and overthrow the YSR congressional government in the state headed by Prime Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy under the leadership of the Party chairman. Telugu Desam, N Chandrababu Naidu.
The accusations, which could not be verified by the Hindustan Times, were made at a press conference in Hyderabad on Saturday night. The state government also issued a statement to that effect. A letter written by Reddy to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, in which the Prime Minister detailed his allegations about Judge Ramana’s proximity to Naidu and the contradictory position taken by the high court against his government’s decisions, as well as investigations of charges against judicial officials and their families, was also released at the conference. The letter had detailed annexes that listed specific sentences and named the judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
HT was unable to immediately communicate with Judge Ramana, the second highest-ranking judge in the superior court after CJI Bobde. Neither he nor his assistant could be reached by phone; and the telephone of his official residence was answered by a person who said that the judge was not at home.
This is the first time that the Jagan government has directly targeted the high judiciary, although his party leaders and ministers have been speaking out against the high court judges for stalling various government decisions, including the so-called three capital plan. .
In his letter to CJI Bobde, Reddy accused the state judiciary of being biased in favor of the TDP and its interests in the nature of the approved orders, suspending the investigation, suspending the investigation, even admitting cases for hearing.
The press conference was led by CM Senior Advisor Ajeya Kallam; This is probably the first time that a sitting prime minister has made an accusation of such a serious nature against one of the highest-ranking judges of the Supreme Court.
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The government said in its statement that the state high court has entertained several auto petitions against the Reddy government’s decisions, including a bill on the creation of three capital bills, in order to protect vested interests in Amaravati, the new capital identified by the Naidu. government that was previously in power in the state. The decision to move the Andhra Pradesh capital from Amaravati was made by the Reddy government after it came to power. About 30 public interest litigation (PIL) petitions were filed in various stages of the government’s legitimate functioning, implementing the prime minister as a defendant, the statement said.
In his letter to CJI Bobde, Reddy referred to Judge Ramana’s proximity to Naidu. He also added that Judge Ramana as “influencing the High Court sessions, including the list … and … matters important to the TDP have been assigned to a few” judges. The annexes list these cases and the orders issued by the judges.
Judge Ramana began influencing the state judiciary through the president of the court, Jitendra Kumar Maheswari, the state government statement said. “Judge Ramana influenced the roster of superior court judges so that important matters of policy and protection of Naidu’s interests were brought up before some judges, including Judge AV Sesha Sai, Judge M Satyanarayana Murthy, Judge DVSS Somayyajulu and Judge D Ramesh, “the statement added. .
Reddy ended his letter to CJI Bobde asking him to take the necessary steps to ensure the neutrality of the state judiciary and offered to substantiate all the details provided in the annex to his letter.
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