Raju, the scam kingpin, and nine others had filed appeals in the HC, praying it to set aside of a trial court order convicting them in the Rs 7000-crore scandal that came to light in 2009.
Justice T Sunil Chowdary said the "appeals lie only before a court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge (MSJ)" and directed the petitioners to approach it as the same are not maintainable before the High Court.
The MSJ Court (sessions court) had on April 20 refused to accept appeal petitions filed by Raju and nine others (challenging the ACCM court verdict) and returned them as not maintainable before it on the grounds that it has no jurisdiction to hear them and asked the 10 convicts to move the High Court.
Accordingly, they moved the HC, where its Registry on Tuesday raised objection over maintainability of these appeals because they were challenging the judgement of a Magistrate (ACMM) court. The matter was subsequently placed before Justice Chowdary.
On April 9, the ACMM Court, which tried the corporate fraud case probed by CBI, sentenced Raju and others, including his brother Rama Raju, to seven years rigorous imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and cheating, among other offences. It had also imposed a Rs 5.5-crore fine on Raju and his brother Rama Raju.
All the convicts are currently lodged in Cherlapally Central Prison here.