Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a meeting with Chief Ministers of the states and the chief justice of Supreme Court and High Courts at New Delhi on Sunday, where Telangana Law Minister Indrakaran Reddy raised the issue of dividing the combined High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States.

 

Responding to his appeal, CJI HL Dattu has asked the High Court Chief Justice Kalyan Jyothisen Gupta to complete the process for dividing the High Court at the earliest. Justice Kalyan Jyothisen Gupta replied him that he is ready to start the process but public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed in the court challenging the division has become a hurdle for it. He assured the CJI that he will start the process for division of the High Court soon after the case is winded up.

 

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said that his government has no objections for division of the High Court. But, the AP government represented by its Principal Secretary told the High Court bench that it doesn’t wants to move out of the present combined High Court to anywhere else other than the High Court building to be built at the state capital Amaravati in the next two or three years. If so, he has to give explanation for CM Chandrababu Naidu’s assurance given during the meeting held at New Delhi during the next hearing slated for April 8th.