Hyderabad: In breather to the TRS government, the Telangana High Court on Monday dismissed a bunch of PILs challenging the state's decision to construct a new secretariat complex here by demolishing the existing one.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Abhishek Reddy delivered the judgment paving way for the K Chandrashekhar Rao-led government to go ahead with the construction of the new secretariat for which the foundation stone was laid on June 27
last year.
The petitioners had contended that the state was reeling under severe financial crisis with huge debts and at this juncture it was not financially viable nor will it reflect the wisdom on the part of the government to involve in such high expenditure.
The petitioners had further contended that the existing secretariat was used by the dispensation of the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh also and many buildings in the complex were constructed in the recent years.
The bench observed that the court does not find any arbitrary or unreasonable mess in the decision of the state cabinet to construct a new secretariat.