HYDERABAD: Even as the High Court Collegium is reportedly initiated an exercise to send the list of names to be recommended for the vacant posts of High Court judges for approval of the Supreme Court Collegium, the Telangana High Court Advocates’ Association has made a representation to Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan with a plea to consider only the advocates who belongs to Telangana region for elevation as judges.
At a recently held general body meeting, presided by association president T Surya Karan Reddy, it was unanimously resolved to request the authorities concerned not to consider the district judges who have not completed 20 years of tenure as judges and below the age of 50 years for elevation as judges of High Court.
As for the ‘proposal’ to shift the existing Telangana High Court to Budwel near Shamshabad airport on city outskirts, the lawyers representing ‘Telangana High Court Parirakshana Samithi’ have again registered their protest outside the High Court here on Thursday, demanding the State government and High Court to drop the proposal.