District judges and the High Court on Thursday suspended nine employees working in subordinate courts in the state for participating in the protests by judicial employees and T-advocates.

Among those suspended are Judicial Employees National Association secretary B. Lakshma Reddy, Telangana State Judicial Employees Association president Jagannatham and general secretary Rajasekhar Reddy.

Four office bearers of Ranga Reddy district judicial employees association, along with two other employees of the lower judiciary in the state were also suspended. The judicial employees association has earlier given a call for strike from July 1. 

All the advocates protested the suspensions of employees and the judicial officers  48 judicial employees from Kukatpalli court and 12 from Ibrahimpatnam court have submitted their resignation letters to their district association president.

Meanwhile the T advocates and judicial officers continued their agitation on Thursday and plan to hold a maha dharna at Indira Park on Friday.

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BY M. DIVYA SHRI