Telangana HC quashes CAT order on Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar

Telangana High Court Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has allowed a writ petition filed by the Centre’s Department of Personnel and Training challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal-Hyderabad order allocating senior IAS officer Somesh Kumar to Telangana in 2016.

The CAT order dated March 29, 2016 allocating



Somesh Kumar, currently the Telangana Chief Secretary was quashed on Monday by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Bhuyan and Justice S Nanda.

The counsel for Somesh Kumar has made a request to keep the order in abeyance for a couple of days so that an appeal can be prefered.