A.P. High Court to hear batch of contempt cases on senior IAS officers on November 13

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court will take up further proceedings on Friday, November 13, in a batch of high-profile contempt cases involving multiple serving and retired senior IAS officers and top government bureaucrats over the alleged willful non-implementation of long-standing court orders. ​The matter was advanced to November 13 for further proceedings during the hearing on October 30, 2026, by a Division Bench comprising Justice Ravi Nath Tilhari and Justice Alapati Giridhar. ​​The contempt petitions, spanning Contempt Case Nos.

4593 of 2022, 189, 750, 861, 908 of 2019, and 68 of 2020, have been filed by various government employee associations, retired officials, and individual petitioners (including Secretariat staff, R&B engineers, TTD employees, and police housing corporation officials). ​The petitioners allege deliberate disobedience and disregard of common judgments and orders delivered by the High Court dating back to December 2018 (such as W.P. No.

43051 of 2016 and W.P. No. 4415 of 2016) and subsequent writ appeals.