The Telangana High Court has reserved its order on IAS officer Amrapali’s plea seeking to lift an interim stay on a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) ruling that directed her allocation to the Telangana cadre. The Division Bench indicated that it would pronounce its decision within two weeks.
The Bench, comprising Justices Moushumi Bhattacharya and Renuka Yara, was hearing an application filed by Amrapali in a writ petition instituted by the Union Government. The petition challenges the CAT’s June 24, 2025, order, which had granted relief to the officer in a dispute involving the mutual exchange of cadre allocations between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The High Court had stayed the operation of the CAT order on December 8, 2025, pending a final decision in the writ petition. Amrapali’s latest application sought to vacate that interim stay, which would allow the Tribunal’s direction on her cadre allocation to take effect while the wider case is considered.
Senior counsel Avinash Desai, appearing for Amrapali, argued that the cadre allocation exercise carried out after the bifurcation of the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh had caused injustice to the officer. He submitted that the classification of officers and the distribution of insider posts between the two successor States had resulted in a General Category insider post being allocated to Andhra Pradesh instead of Telangana.
The counsel urged the High Court to remove the interim stay and permit the CAT’s order to operate. The arguments place the dispute within the broader administrative process through which officers were divided between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana following the creation of the two States.
Opposing the application, Additional Solicitor General B. Narasimha Sharma, appearing for the Union Government, argued that the issue of insider-outsider classification under the October 10, 2014, notification had not been directly challenged in the present proceedings. He submitted that the issue was unrelated to the orders under consideration and sought dismissal of Amrapali’s application.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the High Court reserved its order. The Bench is expected to deliver its decision within two weeks, although the report did not indicate a specific date for pronouncement.
