The law secretary on Tuesday appeared before justice N V Ramana of the A P High Court and admitted the fact that as many as 194 public prosecutor posts were lying vacant in the state as of now and sought time to fill them up.The law secretary was here following a direction from the judge who was hearing a petition that brought to the notice of the court the sorry state of affairs in the judiciary due to lack of public prosecutors to represent the cause of the state. Disinclined to grant anymore time to the state, justice N V Ramana directed the government to fill up the posts of the prosecutors of all cadres vacant at subordinate courts in an expeditious manner.
The judge was dealing with a petition filed by K V N Thammanna Setty seeking a direction to declare the action of the authorities in not appointing public prosecutors and additional public prosecutors to the courts concerned in Vizianagaram as illegal. It may be mentioned that on August 12,the judge ordered notice to the chief secretary to respond on the insensitivity of the home department in filling up vacancies. The secretary to the law department appeared before the judge and submitted details of vacancies and sought four months time to fill up the posts stating that there was a litigation pending before the court.He,however,admitted that there was no stay by the HC.
According to the report of the law secretary, there are 194 vacant posts of public prosecutors and proposals for sanction of 38 posts are pending. The law secretary admitted that the court did not grant any stay on appointment of public prosecutors considering the urgent need of appointment of prosecutors in the courts. The judge was not inclined to grant any time to fill up the posts as sought by the law secretary and directed to fill up the posts by constituting departmental promotional committee or by issuing the notification to recruit the prosecutors.
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Reserve sand quarries in scheduled areas for local tribals only, says HC
A division bench of the A P High Court comprising justice Goda Raghuram and justice Reddy Kantha Rao on Tuesday admitted a writ petition seeking a declaration that the sand quarries in scheduled areas shall be reserved in favour of local tribals,organisations of local tribal youth or local gram panchayats only. The writ petition was filed by Kunja Radha,a sarpanch from Khammam,and another person.They contended that at present the quarries are being given off to any person who is a scheduled tribe.
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(source-toi)
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