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The Telangana High Court connected Friday extended the extortion bid till March 2 to erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, erstwhile Minister T. Harish Rao, erstwhile Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi and IAS serviceman Smitha Sabharwal arsenic their respective counsels concluded arguments successful abstracted writ pleas they filed seeking suspension of P.C. Ghose Commission study implicit Kaleshwaram project.
The seat of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, which heard the writ petitions filed by 4 of them separately granted an bid connected September 2, 2025 restraining the State authorities from taking immoderate adverse enactment against them based connected the findings of the Ghose Commission study which indicted them. Presenting his contentions, Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao’s counsel Dama Sheshadri Naidu said the Commission had the powers of a civilian court. Any idiosyncratic appearing earlier a civilian tribunal was people fixed an accidental to reply the allegations levelled against him.
The Commission did not springiness an accidental to the erstwhile CM to taxable his arguments. Having declared that the petitioners were astatine responsibility successful execution of the Kaleshwarwam Lift Irrigation Scheme, the Commission ought to person provided a accidental to the petitioners to explicate their stand, the counsel said.
The Commission had examined astir 190 witnesses arsenic portion of the Inquiry but did not springiness an accidental to Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao to cross-examine them, the elder counsel argued. Before the Commission’s study was tabled successful the Assembly, a shortened mentation of the study successful the signifier of a presumption was divulged to the media, helium said.
