HC asks why sports quota in professional courses ?

The Hyderabad High Court said the matter of providing sports quota reservations in professional courses was within the realm of the executive and asked how it could intervene.A division bench of Chief Justice T.B.N. Radhakrishnan and Justice V. Ramasubramanian was dealing with the petition by Ms T Shriya and four others challenging the GO issued in July 2018 providing the sports quota in professional colleges. The bench asked how it could declare sports quota as illegal.

The bench felt that the candidates joining medical courses under the sports quota would do justice to sports as medical courses requi-red a high degree of hard work. Wondering at the inclusion of several sports in the list, the bench asked why they had left out household games played with tamarind seeds.PIL on scribes’ land spiked

The Hyderabad High Court held that it cannot fault the government’s decision to allot house sites to journalists.

A division bench of Chief Justice T.B.N. Radhakrishnan and Justice V. Ramasub-ramanian while dismissing a PIL obser-ved, “Journalists, as a group, are always treated as a lot to which various measures of support have been given because they are expected to be involved in dissemination of information which will augment the citizens’ access to information, which in turn would aid the due exercise of the fundamental right to freedom of expression insofar as the citizens are concerned.”

Mr K. Nagi Reddy, a native of Ranga Reddy district, had challenged allotment of land in Narsingi to the Ranga Reddy District Working Journalists Housing Society.Plea on local polls today

The High Court has directed the registry to list on Tuesday, a petition challenging the action of the government in not conducting elections to panchayat raj institutions.

An advocate on Monday sought a direction from a division bench of Chief Justice T.B.N. Radhakrishnan and Justice V. Ramasu-bramanian to the State Election Commission (SEC) to hold the elections.