With more than 10,000 judicial employees and the advocates staying away from work and functioning of the lower courts across Telangana continuing to be crippled, hectic parleys behind the scenes were going on to end the stalemate caused by the suspension of 15 judges by the Hyderabad High Court.
In Hyderabad, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana ESl Narasimhan was in the thick of consultations with all the sides. On Saturday Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao met with him to discuss the issue of bifurcation of the State High Court and revoking the suspension of the Telangana judges.
Earlier on Friday, Narasimhan also met the Acting Chief Justice of the HC, Dilip Bhosle, and the advocate generals of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to explore the possible solution to the problem.
Acting Chief Justice Dilip Bhosle who was now in New Delhi and met the Chief Justice of India TS Thakur and discussed the situation arising out of the protest by the judicial officers, staff and the advocates against the provisional allocation of judges to the two States. The discussion was focused on how to end the logjam by persuading the striking staff and judges to return to work.
The legal fraternity across Telangana was up in arms against the allocation of majority of Andhra origin judges to Telangana before the bifurcation of the High Court.
Meanwhile, the Union Minister of State Bandaru Dattatreya also met the Governor and urged him to take steps for the revocation of the suspension of judges in Telangana. Dattatreya later told the media that the Governor assured him that he will discuss the issue with the Chief Justice of India.
Denying that the Centre was responsible for the imbroglio Dattatreya said that it was the job of Andhra Pradesh Government to initiate the steps for setting up the State High Court.