Telangana HC stays no-confidence motion against Bandlaguda mayor

Telangana High Court stays no-confidence motion against mayor; release of Telugu movie not stayed; land allotment case begins.

Justice T. Vinod Kumar of Telangana High Court on February 15 passed an order staying the no-confidence motion moved against Bandlaguda Jagir Municipal Corporation mayor Burra Mahender Goud.

Recently, 16 corporators of the urban local body belonging to different political parties moved a no-confidence motion and gave a representation to the District Collector on January 12. Subsequently, it was proposed to move the motion on Friday to remove the mayor and elect a new one as per the procedure.

Challenging this, Mr. Mahender Goud filed a writ petition in the High Court. Senior counsel C. Raghu, appearing for the petitioner, contended that while the corporators moved the no-confidence motion on January 12, the Collector decided to conduct the meeting on Friday. This was against the mandatory rule of conducting the meeting within 30 days of moving the no-confidence motion.

The Judge stayed the proposed meeting on Friday and issued notices to the respondents.

In a separate matter, Justice Surepalli Nanda of the High Court declined to stay the release of a Telugu movie ‘Ooru Peru Bhairava Kona’ in a petition filed by B. Satyanarayana of Visakhapatnam. The petitioner sought an order to stay the release of the film claiming rights over the film.

Initially, Mr. Satyanarayana filed a petition sought a direction to Central Board of Film Certification not to issue censor certificate to the movie. The Bench issued notices to the board and film producer two days ago. Meanwhile, the Censor board issued censor certificate to the movie on Wednesday.

In this backdrop, the petitioner moved a lunch motion on Thursday seeking an order to stall release of the film. Declining to pass the order, the Judge adjourned the matter to February 29.