Andhra Pradesh appeals against CAT's DGP order

HYDERABAD: The state government on Monday filed a petition in the AP high court urging it to set aside the recent Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order that held as illegal the appointment of V Dinesh Reddy as the state DGP. The government said that it had the power to choose an officer of its choice for the top post. General administration department (GAD) filed the petition through its assistant secretary V Varadaraj seeking an interim stay on the CAT order.
The state reminded the court that the earlier two orders of the CAT that also held as illegal the previous appointments of two DGPs were either stayed by the AP high court or were awaiting adjudication by the Supreme Court. "When the legality of the CAT order is under the examination by the apex court, it is unlawful on its part to set aside another DGP's appointment citing the same grounds," the GAD official said.
The AP High Court on Monday directed the state's chief secretary and the registrar of the cooperatives to file their replies within two weeks to a plea that pointed out several irregularities in the allotment of plots in the Greyhounds cooperative housing society in Hyderabad. Responding to a petition filed by one P Bhavani of Hyderabad who told the court that the housing society management resorted to several irregularities in the allotment of plots at Manchirevula in Ranga Reddy district. The site was developed as Rock view enclave and the cooperative officials had even written a letter to the chief secretary confirming the irregularities in the allotments. But the CS did not act so far, the counsel for the petitioner said.