High Court refuses to hear plea against Prof Kancha Ilaiah

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad High Court on Friday refused to hear a plea on urgency seeking directions to the Andhra Pradesh police not to grant permission to writer and social activist Prof Kancha Ilaiah to conduct a meeting on Oct 28 or any other date at Gymkhana grounds in Vijayawada.Justice S V Bhatt was refusing to hear a petition moved under lunch motion by the Vijayawada Urban district Aryavysya Sangam, represented by its president Konakalla Vidyadhar Rao, complaining that the police have failed to consider their representation seeking steps to stop the ‘unlawful assembly’ by Prof Kancha Ilaiah and his supporters in Vijayawada.

While refusing to hear the case urgently, the judge told the petitioner’s counsel that the police would look into if there was any ‘unlawful assembly’.The petitioner organisation, in its plea, submitted that the proposed meeting was intended to propagate and promote Prof Kancha Ilaiah’s ‘unlawful activity’. It sought the court to declare the proposed public meeting as illegal.

Meanwhile, the Jawaharnagar police in Hyderabad registered a criminal cases against the writer on Friday for his alleged remarks against Dalits. The complainant Rambabu claimed Ilaiah made derogatory remarks against Dalits in a TV interview.