Andhra Pradesh High Court Weekly Roundup: May 26 - June 1, 2025

Nominal Index [Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 104 to 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 109]S Bhargav Reddy vs. The State of Andhra Pradesh and connected petitions– 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 104Nallaballe Sreenivas and others v. The State of A.P. and another– 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 105M/s. Jaya Venkatarama Industries Limited v. The ESI Corporation And 4 Others– 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 106Peram Venkata Reddy v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh– 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 107Manthena Praveen Kumar v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others– 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 108X v. Y– 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 109Judgments/Final OrdersAndhra Pradesh HC Flags Surge In Online Trolling, Abusive Posts; Suggests 'Auto-Blocking' Of Swear Words On Social MediaCase Title: S Bhargav Reddy vs. The State of Andhra Pradesh and connected petitionsCase Number: Criminal Petitions Nos.8059, 8114, 8320, 8545, 8550 and 8854 of 2024Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 104Taking note of the growing menace of online abuse and trolling, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has urged the State Government to instruct social media intermediaries to 'auto block' the usage of expletives, swear words, militant words, and words akin thereto, on social media platforms.A bench of Justice Nyapathy Vijay passed this order while observing that vulgar, hate-filled, and abusive posts on social media have become the "new age norm", and that 'trolls' attract lightning responses all over, particularly when directed at celebrities or political leaders of stature and following.“It appears that profanity thrives the business entities as they attract instantaneous reactions,” the single judge remarked as it emphasised that every citizen has the right to lead a dignified life, which is a human right recognised under the Constitution of India.“The State Government is obligated to ensure that this right to a dignified life of citizens is not infringed, and it is in that context that the list of expletives, swear words, militant words, and words akin thereto should be identified by the State Government, and executive instructions should be issued, in exercise of their power under the Constitution, prohibiting usage of such words on social media,” the bench observed in its order passed earlier this month.Regularization Scheme Doesn't Cover Every Unauthorized Occupant Of Govt Land: AP High Court Rejects Plea Against EvictionCase Title: Nallaballe Sreenivas and others V. The State of A.P. and anotherCase Number: WRIT APPEAL NO: 592 of 2025Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 105The Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by certain occupants stated to be occupying Government land who had sought protection from eviction citing a recently introduced regularisation scheme.Noting that the regularisation scheme did not universally shield all unauthorised occupations of Government land, a division bench of Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Ravi Cheemalapati held,“Mere filing of a memo accompanied with a copy of the regularization scheme would not itself have been sufficient to claim any omission on the part of the Court to grant an appropriate relief more so, when there was no specific direction sought in the petition in the light of the scheme of regularization. Even otherwise the regularization scheme reference to which has been made by the learned counsel before us, needs to be gone into minutely, as the scheme to us is not meant to cover every case of unauthorized occupation over Government Land. The presence of a scheme for regularization may, in fact, is an independent cause of action for which the petitioners perhaps may have a remedy yet again before the Court.”ESI Contribution, Can't Exempt Establishment Based On Pvt Insurance And Not Having Local Dispensary: AP HCCase Title: M/s. Jaya Venkatarama Industries Limited v. The Esi Corporation And 4 Others and OthersCase Number: CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL NO: 1150/2011Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 106A single judge bench of Justice Nyapathy Vijay held that the mere absence of an ESI dispensary nearby cannot exempt an establishment from liability under the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (“ESI Act”). The court clarified that only the appropriate govt is empowered to grant such exemptions under Section 87 of the Act, and that such exemptions ought to follow a separate application and inquiry process.AP High Court Reduces Fine Imposed On 84-Year-Old Man In Jail For Electricity Theft To ₹20K Citing 'Extreme Old Age'Case Title: Peram Venkata Reddy v. The State Of Andhra PradeshCase Number: CRIMINAL APPEAL NO: 350/2025Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 107While upholding an order passed by special tribunal convicting an 84-year-old man convicting him for electricity theft under Electricity Act, the Andhra Pradesh High Court however reduced the fine imposed on him from Rs.2,70,000 to Rs 20,000.Setting aside the said fine, Justice Y. Lakshamana Rao held,“Section 135(1)(a)(b) of 'the Act' does not confer imposition of Rs.2,70,000/- towards fine. There would have been a justification on the part...

Andhra Pradesh High Court Weekly Roundup: May 26 - June 1, 2025

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