Telangana high court refuses to stay GO-317

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Tuesday said that all the transfers effected by the state government under GO 317 aimed at reshuffling the staff to the new districts will be subject to the judgment rendered in a batch of petitions that challenged the rationale behind the GO.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili while hearing a batch of petitions that challenged GO 317, however, refused to stay the operation of this GO.The bench asked the state to file its counter.
“We will pass orders only after knowing the version of the state,” the bench reiterated its stand on the matter. Upon hearing requests from the advocates representing the petitioners, the bench said that all the transfers made under this GO would be subject to the final outcome in these petitions.
The case will come up for hearing in April.