A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, comprising Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and T. Rajasekhar Rao, on Thursday suspended the ‘social work’ punishment awarded by Justice Battu Devanand to IAS officers M.M. Naik, B. Rajasekhar, J. Syamala Rao, V. Chinna Veerabhadrudu, Y. Srilakshmi and G. Srkr Vijay Kumar in a contempt case last month, for eight weeks in response to the appeals filed by them.
The case was listed for further hearing after two months.
A similar punishment that had been awarded to two other IAS officers - Gopal Krishna Dwivedi and M. Girija Shankar - was also suspended for eight weeks on April 22.
