HC pauses payouts; Congress fumbles affidavit
Telangana High Court’s interim stay covers disbursements under eight GOs for Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak. The bench kept the brake on and asked the state’s Finance wing to bring the actual numbers; a BC Welfare affidavit even mis-cited the Constitution and had to be fixed. The schemes aren’t scrapped — the money is paused till the next hearing.
The High Court kept disbursements under the eight government orders on hold pending the next hearing.
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The Telangana High Court has put an interim stop on paying out under eight government orders tied to Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak, pending the next hearing. The stay explicitly covers disbursement to beneficiaries and was issued after the state sought more time to file its counter, according to multiple reports of the order by Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar. These are interim brakes, not a ruling that the schemes are illegal.
The petitioner, advocate Vijay Gopal (party-in-person), has challenged the schemes’ legal basis — including their operation through GOs rather than statute — citing Articles 202(3), 204(3), 266(3) and 283(2). Those are his arguments; the court has not ruled on them.
At a subsequent hearing, the court kept the stay and told the Finance Department to show its homework: total state debt, whether any borrowing funded these schemes, pending compensation to land-losers, payment priorities, arrears to employees and pensioners, and compliance with the state FRBM Act. The BC Welfare Department’s affidavit managed to mis-cite Article 162; the state’s Additional Advocate General Imran Khan said a corrected version would be filed.
Two dates are floating in reports for the next listing; the official cause list wasn’t available in this research, so we’re not guessing. What is on record is simple: until the court hears it again, payouts wait, and the Congress-run government in Telangana has to bring the numbers and the paperwork — preferably with the right Article this time.