Hyderabad, Aug. 20 -- The Telangana High Court on Thursday, August 20, refused to lift the stay on the Kalyan Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak schemes that were launched to provide financial assistance for marriage to eligible beneficiaries.

Justice NV Shravan Kumar was hearing a writ petition filed by Advocate Vijay Gopal, challenging the legal validity of the schemes.

According to a report in the NewsMeter, the petitioner stated that the schemes were being implemented through eight government orders issued from 2014 onwards, and since framing welfare schemes and fixing eligibility criteria are essentially legislative functions, these schemes, introduced through executive orders, are arbitrary and contrary to Articles 14 and 15 of the Consti...