HYDERABAD: Continuing operations for the third consecutive day, against suspected shell companies involved in money laundering, officials of Registrar of Companies inspected the head office of infrastructure company Navayuga Engineering Company Limited and reportedly seized documents.
However, officials refused to comment on the development. It also wasn’t clear if any suspicious activity was found. When contacted, NECL refused to talk about it.
Express has learnt that the team, which was inspecting the office, received instructions from Delhi to abort the raid midway. Express had earlier reported that a politically well-connected individual was on RoC radar, which functions under MoC Affairs.
The High Court pulled up the secretaries of law and Assembly, saying they had deliberately violated the court order setting aside the expulsion of the two MLAs from Assembly and the gazette notification on a vacancy for Nalgonda and Alampur (SC) Assembly constituencies represented by Komatireddy and Sampath respectively.
“Prima facie, the court’s order has been willfully and deliberately violated by the Assembly secretary and law secretary. Contemnors have to appear before the court. Even the SPs of the two districts (Nalgonda and Jogulamba Gadwal) have indulged in contempt of court by not implementing the court order in providing gunmen to the two MLAs. The constitution is supreme to all.”
Justice B Siva Sankara Rao came down heavily on both the secretaries for wilful disobedience.
“Is it not the duty of the legislature secretary to ensure payment of salaries and perks to both the MLAs upon court direction. How can the orders be blatantly violated? Being a judicial officer, the law secretary is bound to prepare a note on the court’s order and warn the government of the consequences of disobedience,” he remarked.
The judge asked the petitioners’ counsel Jandhyala Ravishankar as to why he had not made the SPs as parties to the contempt case though they failed to implement the court order by restoring the gunmen to the two MLAs.
The judge further asked whether the names of the two MLAs figured in the list sent every month by the Assembly secretary to the Election commission. The counsel replied that their names were not on the list. The SPs AV Ranganath (Nalgonda) and Rema Rajeshwari (Gadwal) failed to restore the security cover, he said. Reacting, the judge said, “How dare the SPs did not restore the security to both the MLAs. The court will examine impleading them as respondents to the case.”
The judge said, “Prima facie, I find there is disobedience of the court order. Nobody is higher than the court.”