SC exempts KCR, Vijayashanti in contempt case

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday granted exemption from personal appearance to TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, MP Vijayashanti and 10 others in a contempt case for vandalising the Andhra Pradesh High Court and hurling slippers at two judges in September last over the Telananga row.
One of the judges C V Nagaarjun Reddy had at that time resigned in protest against the attack but subsequently withdrew it.
A bench of Justices J M Panchal and H L Gokhale, however, recorded an undertaking from the AP High Court Bar Association and the State Bar Council that judicial proceedings in the state would not be obstructed on account of the agitation for the separate state.