Govt. yet to decide on challenging High Court order in the Supreme Court- Minority Affairs Minister Ahmedullah.
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad: In Andhra Pradesh a dubious politics is getting played on the controversy surrounding compensation to terror acquitted Muslim youths, with congress men speaking in pro-Muslim tune and its Government minister playing administrative angel.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court in a controversial judgment described the Government action of providing compensation to Muslim youths acquitted in terror cases after Mecca Masjid blast as unlawful and ordered the state Government to retract total disbursed amount of Rs. 70 lakh.
In the morning even as headlines gripped senior Congress leader and MLC Mohd Ali Shabbir recounting his meeting with the Chief Minister assuring Muslim community that state Government will approach the Supreme Court to challenge the High Court order, now state Minority Affairs Minister Mohammed Ahmedullah told TwoCircles.net that Chief Minister has not yet decided to approach the High Court.
“Today morning I along with Chief Secretary, Law secretary, and Secretary Minorities welfare had a meeting on this issue with Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, as the chief minister office still didn’t receive the Court order papers we decided to take any decision only after studying the judgment,” Mr. Ahmedullah told TCN.
Minority affairs minister said High Court judgment was unfortunate as it didn’t take into consideration that it wasn’t a sole administrative decision (as observed by the judges) but an administrative tread after National Commission for Minorities recommendations, “The honorable Chief Minister decided to grant the compensation when National Commission for Minorities made strong representation for giving compensation to youths who were arrested in terror case after Mecca Masjid blasts, tortured in police custody, but later got acquitted. Chief Minister announced the grant on the floor of legislative assembly when many Muslim leaders demanded relief for those youths. Court should have looked into all this angels.”
On the counter argument that High Court would have looked into all the aspects given Government proper representation in the court which many are alleging was not done at all, Minority Affairs Minister was not ready to accept it, “We did make a proper representation but first I have to check all the papers presented by our Advocate General in the court which I haven’t seen yet. Only after examining the papers presented in the courts, I could decide whether there was some draw backs from Government and its advocate general’s part in representing the case properly in the court.”