K. Chandrasekhara Rao. File
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Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao and his former Cabinet colleague T. Harish Rao approached the Telangana High Court seeking a direction to the State Government not to initiate any coercive action against them till the High Court decides the writ petition they had filed seeking to set aside P.C. Ghose Commission report over Kaleshwaram project.
The two leaders filed separate interim applications in their respective writ petitions (no. 24837 and no. 24835) filed recently seeking to quash the Commission’s report that indicted them over alleged irregularities in execution of Kaleshwaram project. On August 22, a Bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, after hearing contentions of the petitioners and the government counsels for two consecutive days, passed an order declining to grant interim relief to KCR and Harish Rao.
T. Harish Rao. File
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In the present interim applications, the two petitioners expressed apprehensions that, since the Telangana Assembly was convening a session on August 30 (today), the government might “rush into precipitous action against” them after the Commission’s report was tabled and discussed in the Assembly. The government, the petitioners said, say that action was being initiated against them since the Commission’s report was tabled and discussed in the Assembly.
This would cause irreparable damage to the reputation of the petitioners, they said in the interim pleas. Citing these apprehensions, the petitioners requested the HC to restrain the government from initiating any coercive action against till the writ petition they had filed was decided by it.
In the August 22 order, the Bench observed that the apprehensions of KCR and Harish Rao that the government might initiate action against them based on the Commission’s report was “misplaced,” The Bench passed the direction following the Advocate General A. Sudarshan Reddy’s categorical submission that the government would take further action only after discussion over the report on the floor of Assembly.
Published – August 30, 2025 12:43 pm IST
