HYDERABAD: The
Telangana high court on Wednesday asked the state
government whether it would accord priority to advocates and court staff while administering the Covid-19 vaccine.
A bench of Justice A Rajasheker Reddy and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy gave time to the state counsel till Friday to ascertain from the government. The bench converted a letter written by advocate Ponnam Ashok Goud as a
PIL and issued a notice to the government.
The advocate in his letter expressed apprehensions over the safety of advocates. He said the lawyers run from one court hall to another in pursuit of arguing their cases and inevitably run the risk of getting afflicted with the virus. “It is equally precarious for the court staff,” he contended.
Though the state counsel said the government would act in tune with the Centre’s guidelines and sought four weeks to get back to the court, the judges said two days are more than enough to get a clarity on this pressing issue.
The judges agreed with the plea of the state counsel to implead the central government in the case. The bench adjourned the case to January 8 for further hearing.