Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday told the TS government to take steps to ensure that the house owned by Pratyusha’s natural mother is transferred in the girl’s name and that the rental is credited to her bank account.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice S.V. Bhatt was dealing with a taken-up case based on a letter from Justice Challa Kodanda Ram seeking justice to the 19-year-old victim of parental torture.
It may be recalled that Pratyusha was rescued from the clutches of her stepmother Shyamala and father on July 8, 2015 in the city.
Ramesh Kumar, Pratyusha’s father who was released on bail, appeared before the court and submitted that the flat owned by his first wife was transferred on his name after her death and he was prepared to transfer it to Pratyusha.
Adjourning the case, the bench asked Sharath Kumar, special counsel for TS to take steps to transfer the property on the girl’s name.
Share varsity staff salaries, Telangana , AP told
The Hyderabad High Court on Monday directed the TS and AP governments to pay salaries to employees of Horticulture University at ratio of 58:42 and continue them in TS till the AP government finalises the modalities for division of staff.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice S.V. Bhatt was dealing with petitions by the Dr YSR Horticultural University of AP represented by its registrar and employees of the Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University challenging the decision of the Telangana Horticultural University in allotting 33 employees, including 27 assistant professors and 6 non-teaching staff to the Dr YSR University as a part of division of staff among two states.
Recalling the direction of the court with regard to power employees’ dispute, the bench said that same arrangement can be made by both the states with regard to bearing of salaries of the employees.
Earlier, the bench had asked AP government and the YSR Horticultural University to inform by December 28, as to how much time will they need to prepare modalities for the division of the varsity staff.
AP advocate-general P. Venugopal submitted that this would be done within eight weeks. The matter was posted to January 20, 2016.
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