Telangana High Court orders on demolition of the Secretariat buildings until upset the K.Chandrasekhara Rao led TRS government. The HC has asked the Telangana government not to precede the demolition of the Secretariat buildings until further orders. It has admitted a petition filed by the T-Congress MLA T. Jeevan Reddy seeking orders to stop the demolition of the Secretariat in the name of Vaastu.
The court asked the government to file its counter with all the details by 10th of this month for further hearing in the case. The petitioner, Jeevan Reddy informed to the court that the government was planning to demolish the Secretariat only because of Vaastu reasons which is not scientific and going to burden the exchequer to the tune of hundreds of crores. However, the advocate general on behalf of the government told to the court that the construction of a new Secretariat was planned only to facilitate administrative convenience and not for vaastu reasons as alleged by the petitioner.