Telangana High Court sets up panel to end RTC stir

The Telangana HC mooted a proposal to constitute a three-member committee of retired Supreme Court judges to break the impasse over the TSRTC strike, even while wondering about the effectiveness of such a panel.

A Bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Abhishek Reddy came up with this idea of constituting the committee while continuing to hear the arguments over the RTC strike.

The proposal came from the bench which noticed that its attempts to bring the government and the unions across the table to thrash out issues



ended in failure.

Advocate General BS Prasad Rao informed the court that this suggestion would be conveyed to the government and its response placed before the court on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, Amicus Curiae and senior counsel Vidyasagar told the High Court that the bench could not declare the strike illegal at the instance of the petitioners. The senior counsel pointed out that the Industrial Tribunal would be the appropriate forum, if and when such dispute was referred to the tribunal by the government.