Hyderabad: Judges from Telangana and Andhra Pardesh took to streets on Sunday in protest against non-withdrawal of the list of provisional allocation of judicial officers between both the states, with over 100 of them submitting their resignations.
Judges from 10 districts of Telangana, under the banner of the Telangana Judges Association, today organised a rally from Gun Park to Raj Bhavan here and submitted a representation to the governor, ESL Narasimhan against the provisional allocation of judicial officers.
"They kept no vacancy in all cadres of Telangana while keeping vacancies in Andhra Pradesh. Youngest Direct Recruit Officers from Andhra Pradesh were intentionally allocated to Telangana to deprive the promotional prospects of Telangana judges, to rule Telangana judiciary and to protect their men and property. We are also afraid of their future intervention in political and executive administration of Telangana,'' judges association said in a letter.
The letter further said, "We feel we are working under the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and not under the High Court of both states,'' said the strongly worded letter. "So we unanimously resolved not to approach the High Court for redressal on judicial side, orally, as majority in High Court are with biased attitude towards our issue."
"We cannot work under Andhra judicial rulers, in future,'' it added.
Earlier, at a meeting here, around 125 judicial officers of Telangana also gave their resignations to the Telangana Judges Association president and authorised him to present them to Governor as and when he feels proper if their demands are not met, a representative of the Association told PTI.
"We will wait for one more week seeking fulfilment of our demands," he said.
Meanwhile, Telangana Advocates JAC co-convener T Sriranga Rao said, "Of the 21 judges at the Hyderabad High Court, 18 are natives of Andhra Pradesh and only three are from Telangana".
"The allocation was done by the High Court without taking into consideration the guidelines framed by the High Court in February this year.
"We have been seeking preparation of a fresh list of allocation between the two states as per the native district declared by the judicial officers at the time of entry into service by following the guidelines notified for bifurcation of lower judiciary, and as per Section 77 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014," Rao said.
Advocates and judicial employees across Telangana had been protesting since June 6 against the provisional allocation through the Bar Association of High Court and all districts of Telangana state, along with the Telangana Advocates JAC, Telangana Judges Association, State Judicial Employees Association and Telangana Law Officers Association.
(With inputs from PTI)
