Bench tells Police Commissioners to ensure everyone conforms to COVID-19 rules during relaxation time Describing sudden imposition of 20-hours-per-day lockdown in the State as ‘knee-jerk’ reaction, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday said the government should have given more breathing time for people to pool up groceries and other essential commodities. A bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy said that other States had given sufficient time for people before clamping lockdown, so that they made arrangements to meet the situation. The bench issued a slew of directions to Police Commissioners of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda Anjani Kumar, V.C. Sajjanar and Mahesh Bhagwat respectively. They attended the court in virtual mode, after the bench advanced the hearing of PIL pleas on COVID-19 related issues from Thursday to Tuesday, taking into consideration the grave situation people were facing due to alarming rise in COVID-19 cases.