Hyderabad, Aug. 15 -- The Telangana High Court on Friday, August 14, dismissed as not maintainable two separate public interest litigations, one by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao and another by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Payal Shankar, seeking a court direction to the state government to release pending crop loss compensation to farmers.

A division bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin turned down both petitions. Shankar's plea ran into trouble even earlier in the process, with the court registry flagging objections over its maintainability, and since the petitioner could not satisfy those objections. In fact, as the matter never even got as far as being assigned a PIL number before it, ...