Steps taken to expedite cases on MLAs, says HC

Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Thursday said it taking steps to ensure expeditious hearing in cases against legislators and former legislators pending in various trial courts. A bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy said this while hearing a PIL filed by M Padmanabha Reddy of Forum for Good Governance. The petitioner had expressed apprehensions that the government and police were not helping the judicial authorities in carrying out the task.When senior counsel S Satyam Reddy urged the court for speedy action, the bench told him that the PIL has become redundant because the matter was taken up by the Supreme Court which is giving directions to states from time to time.