Justice K. Lakshman has directed the Adilabad Urban mandal tahsildar to issue an ST community certificate as Lingadhari Koya to an NEET aspirant within two weeks. This comes after Challuri Nihitha, the aspirant, filed a writ before the Telangana High Court alleging that the Adilabad collector and the tahsildar had repeatedly rejected her request for issuance of a certificate on untenable grounds.
The petitioner alleged that in spite of her bringing to the notice of the respondent authorities, the community certificate of her parents, her requests were illegally and arbitrarily rejected by the respondent authorities. After considering her plea, the judge set aside the rejection orders passed by the respondent authorities and directed that the certificate be issued within two weeks. The petitioner complained of inexplicable red tape and lack of sensitivity on the part of the government in dealing with elementary issues relating to the social status that could jeopardise her career prospects.
Chief Justice Alok Aradhe recused from hearing a writ petition filed against the National Law School Nalsar as he was the chancellor of the university and said it would be improper on his part to adjudicate matters of the institution. The matter relates to a writ petition filed by M. Karthik, a resident of Tirupati.
It is the case of the petitioner that he scored All India rank of 871 and Nalsar had failed to consider his domicile status thereby proceeded to insert his candidature at serial.
