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The Telangana High Court connected Monday extended the interim extortion bid earlier granted to erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao, T. Harish Rao, erstwhile main caput Shailendra Kumar Joshi and IAS serviceman Smitha Sabharwal successful a batch of pleas connected to Justice P.C. Ghose Commission findings implicit alleged irregularities successful Kaleshwaram project.
A seat of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, aft proceeding contentions of elder counsels representing the 4 petitioners, adjourned the proceeding to February 25. The 4 petitioners filed abstracted petitions successful the HC seeking a absorption suspend the cognition of the Commission report, pursuing which the HC directed the authorities not to instrumentality immoderate adverse enactment against them successful the matter.
The State authorities constituted a Commission of Inquiry headed by Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, erstwhile justice of the Supreme Court, to inquire into the alleged irregularities successful execution of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme during the past authorities led by the BRS. The Commission submitted its study connected July 31, 2025 and made circumstantial observations against the 4 petitioners. While S.K. Joshi was main secretary, Smitha Sabharwal was the Secretary successful Chief Minister’s Office then.
Senior counsels of the Supreme Court Aryama Sundaram, Dama Sheshadri Naidu and J. Ramchandra Rao, erstwhile Additional Advocate General of Telangana HC, presented contentions connected behalf of the petitioners. Advocate General A. Sudarshan Reddy informed the seat that the authorities had filed antagonistic affidavits successful the writ petitions portion the petitioners replied to the same. He sought clip to respond to the replies.
