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HYDERABAD: A division bench of the A.P. High Court, comprising Acting Chief Justice B. Prakasha Rao and Justice V.S. Appa Rao, on Tuesday stayed the operation of the orders of the State government operationalising the Right to Education Act.

The bench was dealing with a batch of writ petitions filed by various elite, corporate schools.

Some of them challenged the Constitutional validity of various provisions of the Right to Education Act.

They complained that the government is directing them register with them again and is forcing them to provide education to nearly 25 per cent of students by accepting the fee payable at government schools.

The bench granted interim orders suspending the G.O.s issued by the State government and asked the respondents to file counter affidavits.

Bench stays G.O.

A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice B.Prakasha Rao and Justice V.S. Appa Rao on Tuesday suspended the operation of the G.O. issued by the State government which permitted the TTD to give away 100 acres of land in Brahmnapattu village near Tirupati to TTD employees for house sites.

The bench was admitting the writ petition filed by P.B.Ramesh and others. They said that these lands belong to deity Sri Laxmi Narayana Swamy of Tirupati.

They said this is distinct deity and the TTD which has taken over the management of the temple from Endowments Department cannot give away the lands like this. The lands were given by donors centuries back and the property cannot be bartered away like this, the petitioners averred.

They challenged the resolution of the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams and the consequential G.O. The bench stayed the G.O. and restrained the TTD from changing the nature of land.

Counter affidavit

The State and Central governments were directed for a ‘third' time by a division bench of AP High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice B. Prakash Rao and Justice V. Suri Appa Rao to file counter affidavits in a petition filed seeking a direction to delete the Para 14 (f) from the Presidential Order 1975.

On Tuesday the bench was dealing with a writ petition filed by M. Narayana a resident of Nizamabad.

He said that the para-14(f) of the Presidential Order was redundant and ultra vires to Article 371-D of the Constitution.

This para exempted recruitments under the Hyderabad City Police Act from the purview of the Presidential Order. The Presidential Order provides for local and non local reservations.

In the light of this provision the word ‘free zone' was coined denoting that the Hyderabad city is free from regular local and non local reservations provided under Presidential Order.

The petitioner brought to the notice of the court that the Assembly passed a unanimous resolution in March 2010 seeking the Centre to delete the Para 14 (f) from the Order.

The bench said that in such matters there is necessity for prompt counter affidavits and adjourned the matter to Monday