Hyderabad: Anguished over the disrespect shown to him by the agitating Telangana lawyers in the last three days, High Court judge Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy reportedly resigned late on Thursday.Justice Reddy is believed to have forwarded his resignation to both President Pratibha Patil and AP High Court Chief Justice Nissar Ahmad Kakru,sources told TOI. I was very upset to see so many anti-social elements entering the sacred court hall and hurling abuses against the judiciary, Justice Nagarjuna Reddy reportedly wrote in his resignation letter.As a judge of this High Court,my inability to protect the institution and the innocents made me to take this decision.No one has taken enough care even when the judiciary as an institution was under attack for the last three days, he said in his letter.However,efforts are on by Supreme Court and HC judges to dissuade Justice Reddy from pressing his resignation.
In an unprecedented day of high drama,the AP High Court remained stalled - for the third day running -with agitating Telangana advocates running amok in the corridors of the court.Even as all courts in Telangana area including Hyderabad city observed total bandh,pandemonium broke out in the courts of a few judges of the High Court who insisted on carrying on with the proceedings.Another judge had to sit on dharna in the court to force the agitators out.This is crazy.Truly,the constitutional provisions have broken down and we can say this because one of the pillars of democracy is not being allowed to function, said a senior adovcate. But striking Telangana advocates were not convinced by niceties.They continued their demand for 42 per cent reservation for people from their region in all government legal posts.The biased government has appointed all sorts of non-deserving candidates from Andhra and Rayalaseema areas in legal posts.We demand that our competent people also be given positions, said a Telangana lawyer.Since the government is misrepresenting the truth,we have no way but to agitate.We know we are lawyers and expected to litigate but there is no other way, he added.
Meanwhile,the hunger strike by the three Telangana lawyers entered the fourth day on Thursday,two advocates belonging to the SC/ST High Court Advocates of AP joined the hunger strike in support of quota for the Telangana advocates but added that there should be a reservation of 16 per cent for SCs and 7 per cent for STs as well. Even before the HC could begin work on Thursday morning,Telangana advocates gathered in strength both inside the courts and outside the premises.On outside, slogan-shouting advocates gathered near the main gate and at least one advocate from Karimnagar,G Venkateshwarlu, attempted self-immolation by pouring kerosene over himself.However,he was prevented by his colleagues.
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Act firmly: Judges
The full court of the AP High Court presided over by Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru decided to deal with lawyers stir with an iron hand.CJ Kakru who cut short his visit to Jammu and Kashmir,his home state, summoned a meeting of the full court on Thursday.Of the 32 judges,27 were present.According to sources, the full court resolved to remove all the fasting advocates from the HC premises immediately.TNN
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Mantri backs lawyers
Queering the pitch for the state government in resolving the strike by the Telangana advocates,IT minister from Nalgonda Komatireddy Venkat Reddy threw in his lot with the lawyers and said their demand was genuine and should be conceded to.P4
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