High Court hears PIL on TSRTC strike

A two judge bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Justice. A Rajasekhara Reddy and Justice Abhishek Reddy assembled for a special session on Sunday to hear a PIL relating to the ongoing strike by employees of TSRTC.

Subendhu Singh a students from the campus college of Osmania University complained in his PIL that the strike was illegal and was causing great inconvenience to the public at large. The petitioner sought directions to the government to immediately stall the agitation.

Advocate General BS Prasad and Additional Advocate General Ramachandra Rao appeared for the government, clearly conveying



how serious the government was about the matter.

The Principle Law Officers of the State informed the bench about all necessary steps taken to ensure minimum inconvenience to the public at large. It was also pointed out that the parties were engaged before the conciliatory officer of the Trade Unions Act. However the Union withdrew unilaterally from the conciliation process. 

The bench granted time to the government to file a counter on October 10 and in the meanwhile to take steps necessary to ensure no there was no inconvenience to the public.