Telangana High Court to hear Kaleshwaram commission case today
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court will today hear the petitions filed by former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and former minister T. Harish Rao against the Justice P.C. Ghose Kaleshwaram commission. The petitions allege procedural violations and claim the report was politically motivated.
Kaleshwaram commission report faces courtroom test today
At the previous hearing, senior Supreme Court advocate Aryama Sundaram, representing KCR, told the bench that the commission had not issued notices in the proper manner. He said the report was not supplied to the petitioners, even though the government presented a PowerPoint summary and distributed copies to journalists at a press conference.
He argued that this selective disclosure amounted to a denial of natural justice. According to him, the commission’s findings were prepared in a way that would politically damage the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and its leaders.
The government, through its counsel, defended the process. They said the report had been uploaded on the official website and made public through a detailed media briefing by the Chief Minister. Advocate General B.S. Sudarshan Reddy informed the bench that the state had constituted a three-member committee to examine the report and that the government planned to table the document in the Assembly for debate.
The bench, however, asked pointed questions: why were petitioners not given copies when journalists were? Was the state planning to act on the report immediately or only after an Assembly discussion? The Chief Justice remarked that clarity was needed on these questions, given the seriousness of the issue.
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