Telangana High Court reserved orders in an appeal filed by Union government challenging the order given by Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) - Hyderabad staying allotment of senior IAS officer Somesh Kumar to Andhra Pradesh cadre.
A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Surepalli Nanda heard contentions of the counsels of the Union government and Mr. Somesh Kumar and reserved orders on Thursday.
Following bifurcation of undivided AP into separate States of AP and Telangana, the Union government re-allotted IAS and IPS officers working in the unified AP State to the residuary AP State and the newly created Telangana State. In this process, Somesh Kumar was allotted to AP cadre.
