Kalyana Lakshmi appeal gets its courtroom slot
The Telangana government’s challenge to the interim stay on Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak was listed before the High Court’s Chief Justice bench on September 1. The stay remains interim, not a scheme obituary.
The State’s appeal has been listed; the interim stay remains in place for now.
The Telangana government’s appeal against the interim stay on Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak was listed before the High Court’s Chief Justice bench on September 1, after Registry objections were overruled on August 31. The appeal was directed to be assigned a regular number and heard by a Division Bench, according to court reports. The cause list records the underlying case as WP/21732/2026, Vijay Gopal vs State of Telangana, with applications including a stay petition and a petition to vacate the stay.
Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar’s August 12 interim order stayed the operation of eight government orders linked to the schemes, including disbursements under them. Reports say the State told the court that payments had been stopped. The order is not a final finding that either scheme is unconstitutional; the original writ petition is listed again on September 9.
The State’s Advocate General, A. Sudarshan Reddy, argued that the schemes fall within the State’s executive power under Article 162. Those are submissions, not findings. The full appeal order, the appeal number and the September 1 hearing outcome were not available in the material consulted. For now, the schemes remain in court limbo while the paperwork catches up.