The Telangana High Court on Wednesday (April 22, 2026), pronouncing verdict in a batch of writ petitions seeking to set aside Justice P.C. Ghose Commission report over alleged irregularities in execution of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) project, said the Commission’s findings “shall be inoperative”.
A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, reading out operative part of the verdict in the First Court, said “no action can be taken” against former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and three others based on the findings of the Commission.
The bench, however, upheld that constitution of the Commission under Commission of Inquiries Act was “neither arbitrary nor illegal”. The present Telangana government, led by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of the Congress party, issued a Government Order MS no. 6 on March 14 of 2024 constituting a Commission of Inquiry with former judge of the Supreme Court of India Justice P.C. Ghose to inquire into the alleged irregularities and misappropriation of funds in execution of KLIS, a prestigious project taken up by the previous government led by the then Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
