Hyderabad: A division bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday said that it will pronounce its interim order on Friday over a batch of petitions seeking stay on the ongoing selection process to fill posts of junior civil judges.

The bench was dealing with petitions by senior counsel S. Satyam Reddy and others challenging the notifications issued for recruitment of 131 junior civil judges’ posts.

K. Ramakrishna Reddy, advocate-general of Telangana, contended that the notification for recruitment of junior civil judges was not applicable to the state of Telangana as it was issued before Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated.

He urged the court to stay all further proceedings pursuant to the notification issued on February 1, 2014 and consequential notification dated February 5, 2015 for the recruitment.

Mr Satyam Reddy, appearing as party-in-person, requested the court to declare action of the respondent authorities in not bifurcating the subordinate judicial officers and other judicial employees of the erstwhile state of AP as per the AP Reorganisation Act and issuance of notifications, as illegal and arbitrary. Contending that notifications issued prior to bifurcation are not applicable to TS, G. Vidyasagar, senior counsel appearing for other petitioners, stressed the need for modifying the notifications in accordance with the Telangana state judicial service rules. The bench posted the matter to Friday for interim order.