{"id":237394,"date":"2020-10-13T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=237394"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:03:17","slug":"ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench of Rakesh Kumar and J. Uma Devi, JJ., while ordering CBI investigation in regard to defamatory posts being put up against the Judiciary on social media sites, observed that,<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;Petitioner i.e. High Court of Andhra Pradesh is being attacked by some corner with some oblique motive.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">High Court<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner i.e. High Court, whose shoulder is heavily burdened with the responsibility of mainly protecting the right of a citizen <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution of India, is itself before this Court with inward pain due to indirect\/direct attack on it by some of the malefactors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">News Trend: Abuse the High Court &amp; Judges<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Court has since April, 2020 noticed that a new trend has developed in the State of Andhra Pradesh which is to abuse the High Court and its Judges on different social media sites along with interviews on electronic media.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">No platform for Judges<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judges do not have any platform to prove their sincerity, integrity, etc. even in a case they are otherwise abused or insulted.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Contempt of Courts Act, 1971<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Provisions of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, in a case of willful disobedience\/insult to the Court, one can be dealt with, but the fact remains that penal provisions under the Contempt of Courts Act are though enough to deter persons, who have some faith in the system; <strong>but not enough to deter such malefactors in making unwarranted allegations against the Judiciary or Judges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Waging War &#8211;&gt; Judiciary<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been noted that the person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against the State of Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Judicial system. The said war against the judicial system will certainly create unnecessary doubt in the citizen&#8217;s mind leading to crippling the entire system.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Article 226 of the Constitution of India<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above background, the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Amravati has preferred to invoke the writ jurisdiction under Article 226 with a view to protecting its entity from the attack of some antisocial elements in the State.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Increase in defamatory posts on social media<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After filing two complaints by the Registrar General of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh for the offences under <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Sections 505 (2) and 506 of the Penal Code, 1860, <strong>instead of a decline in posting defamatory posts on social media, it started increasing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an earlier incident, one of the alleged accused <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Kondareddydhanireddy, YSRCP had shared a defamatory post against one of the Judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the present context, the Judges have been abused in view of some of the orders passed by this Court.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Impact | Orders against State Government and its functionaries<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 22-05-2020, different benches of this Court had passed different orders against the orders and actions of the State Government and its functionaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Immediately after the passing of the above-stated orders, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">social media was flooded with objectionable posts. Even the persons occupying high positions went to the media and gave interviews against the High Court and its Judges, that too, from the party office belonging to a political party, which is in power.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Investigation<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioners Counsel tried to persuade the Court that <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">against the Judiciary, which is one of the main pillars of the democracy, such scathing attack is being made with impunity, which requires immediate intervention and thorough investigation; and, as such, it was prayed to entrust the investigation into the aforesaid matter to an independent investigating agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further submitted that since the attack has been made by the persons occupying high positions and associated with the Government, there was no possibility of an independent and fair investigation at the hands of the State Government controlled agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench in view of the above directed to entrust all the FIRs to the Central Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court added that,<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 19\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">While conducting an investigation, it would be necessary to examine as to whether such attacks on Judiciary were made as a result of a larger conspiracy or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 19\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">If it is noticed that it was due to the result of larger conspiracy, the CBI is required to take appropriate action against such culprits irrespective of the post and position. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 19\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court while concluding its decision directed that CBI immediately after taking up investigation may take steps so that all the defamatory posts available on social media, i.e., private respondents, may be struck down and may also take steps to block such users in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CBI shall submit its report in a sealed cover to the Court within 8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter has been lited for 14-12-2020.[High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati v. State of Andhra Pradesh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/Nl1jKc5j\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine AP 1019<\/b><\/a>, decided on 12-10-2020]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Rakesh Kumar and J. Uma Devi, JJ., while ordering CBI investigation in regard to defamatory <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":213668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[40851,10481,36221,43503,2583,43757,41593],"class_list":["post-237394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-cbi","tag-defamatory","tag-high-court-of-andhra-pradesh","tag-Investigation","tag-jagan-mohan-reddy","tag-social-media-posts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh&#039;s Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh&#039;s Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Rakesh Kumar and J. Uma Devi, JJ., while ordering CBI investigation in regard to defamatory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-13T11:32:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-16T06:03:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/\",\"name\":\"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh's Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-13T11:32:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-16T06:03:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg\",\"width\":1330,\"height\":887},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\",\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Bhumika Indulia\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh's Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation | SCC Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh's Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation","og_description":"Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Rakesh Kumar and J. Uma Devi, JJ., while ordering CBI investigation in regard to defamatory","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2020-10-13T11:32:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-10-16T06:03:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1330,"height":887,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bhumika Indulia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bhumika Indulia","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/","name":"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh's Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-13T11:32:56+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-16T06:03:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg","width":1330,"height":887},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/13\/ap-hc-person-occupying-high-posts-are-indulging-in-waging-war-against-state-of-andhra-pradeshs-judicial-system-hc-orders-cbi-investigation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AP HC | Person occupying high posts are indulging in waging war against State of Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Judicial system: HC orders CBI investigation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a","name":"Bhumika Indulia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg","caption":"Bhumika Indulia"},"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":332414,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/10\/04\/supreme-court-directs-cbi-monitored-sit-investigation-in-tirupati-laddu-allegations\/","url_meta":{"origin":237394,"position":0},"title":"Supreme Court directs CBI monitored SIT investigation in Tirupati Laddu ghee adulteration allegations","author":"Editor","date":"October 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The SIT formed by SC shall consist of 2 officers of CBI, nominated by the Director; 2 officers of Andhra Pradesh State Police; and 1 senior officer of FSSAI.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tirupati laddu investigation by CBI","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tirupati-laddu-investigation-by-CBI.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tirupati-laddu-investigation-by-CBI.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tirupati-laddu-investigation-by-CBI.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tirupati-laddu-investigation-by-CBI.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":279840,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/12\/17\/ys-vivekananda-reddy-murder-trial-transferred-to-cbi-fair-trial-supreme-court-legal-updates-research-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":237394,"position":1},"title":"Explained | Why Supreme Court transferred former Andhra Pradesh Minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy\u2019s murder trial to CBI Special Court at Hyderabad","author":"Editor","date":"December 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court observed that the principles of Administration of Justice states that justice should not only be done but it should be seen to be done and free and fair trial is sine qua non of Article 21 of the Constitution.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Andhra Pradesh Minister","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MicrosoftTeams-image-509.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":338588,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/01\/07\/state-govt-consent-not-required-by-cbi-register-fir-against-central-govt-employee-sc\/","url_meta":{"origin":237394,"position":2},"title":"CBI doesn\u2019t require State Govt\u2019s consent to register FIR under Central Law against Central Govt employee posted within State: SC reiterates","author":"Editor","date":"January 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cThe \u2018laws\u2019 applicable to the undivided State of Andhra Pradesh would continue to apply to the new States, namely, the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh despite the bifurcation of the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh till such time they were altered, repealed or amended.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"State Govt.\u2019s content by CBI","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/State-Govt.s-content-by-CBI.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/State-Govt.s-content-by-CBI.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/State-Govt.s-content-by-CBI.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/State-Govt.s-content-by-CBI.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":337174,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/12\/12\/ap-hc-grants-anticipatory-bail-to-ram-gopal-varma-in-criminal-defamation-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":237394,"position":3},"title":"Andhra Pradesh High Court grants anticipatory bail to Ram Gopal Varma in criminal defamation case for objectionable posts on \u2018X\u2019 (Twitter)","author":"Arushi","date":"December 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Court directed that the petitioner shall cooperate with the investigation as and when required for the purpose of investigation.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Andhra Pradesh High Court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":234363,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/08\/20\/ap-hc-telephonic-conversation-designing-a-plot-against-chief-justice-of-andhra-pradesh-courts-requests-justice-raveendran-to-hold-enquiry\/","url_meta":{"origin":237394,"position":4},"title":"AP HC | Telephonic conversation designing a plot against Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh &#038; Supreme Court Judge; Court requests Justice Raveendran to hold enquiry","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"August 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Andhra Pradesh High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of M. Satyanarayana Murthy and Lalitha Kanneganti, JJ., ordered an enquiry into a conversation contained in pen-drive disclosing some material about designing a plot against the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh and another sitting Judge of the Supreme Court. Court stated that, \"Unfortunately, today\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Andhra-Pradesh-High-Court.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":301400,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/09\/13\/ap-hc-puts-interim-stay-acb-court-proceedings-against-chandrababu-naidu-skill-development-scam\/","url_meta":{"origin":237394,"position":5},"title":"Skill Development Scam Case | Andhra Pradesh HC puts Interim stay on ACB Court proceedings against Chandrababu Naidu","author":"Ridhi","date":"September 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Naidu pleaded that the Trial Court\u2019s order was passed without considering CID\u2019s failure to obtain prior approval from Governor as required under Section 17A of Prevention of Corruption Act.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"andhra pradesh high court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/andhra-pradesh-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/andhra-pradesh-high-court.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/andhra-pradesh-high-court.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/andhra-pradesh-high-court.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}