Telangana high court summons TSPSC chief, school education secretary

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Friday issued notices to TSPSC chairman B Janardhan Reddy and school education secretary Sandeep Kumar Sultania in a contempt case and directed them to appear before the court on June 16 to explain the reasons for their failure to decide on giving employment to a person on compassionate grounds.
A bench of Justice MS Ramachandra Rao and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili gave this direction while hearing a contempt case filed by Mohammed Mahmooduddin Farooqi who has been fighting to get a job on compassionate grounds after his father died while serving the state as a school headmaster in 2002.
The authorities initially cited underage as a reason but later sat on the representation that sought an exemption from this. They are yet to take a call even though Farooqi became a major long ago. The argument of the state counsel that the file is moving now did not go well with the court.
The argument that Janardhan Reddy who held the school education secretary position earlier was not present and that he was made TSPSC chairman recently was not accepted by the bench. “He has to come to court to explain his past failures,” the bench said.