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Fear of Jaganmohan Reddy stalling Hyderabad High Court division?

CM Naidu threatened by High Court bifurcation: Advocates

Even as Telangana advocates have decided to continue their agitation till the bifurcation of Hyderabad High Court has been completed, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu has left the matter in the hands of the Centre. 


Reacting to the on-going protests in Hyderabad and the Telangana government’s stand on the HC bifurcation, Naidu said that the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014 had laid a clear path for the HC bifurcation. 

 

“Such issues could be settled through negotiations in the presence of the Centre,” CM Naidu said.

 

He also questioned the KCR government for not showing the same spirit in the division of assets with regards to the joint entities mentioned in the Schedule 9 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act.


Telangana advocates allege lack of conviction on the part of Naidu as he wasn't responding to the demands to bifurcate Hyderabad HC.

 

According to some Naidu-critics in Telangana, the CM has been worried about the cases booked against opposition leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy which has been taken up by the CBI Court in Hyderabad. Naidu doesn’t want these cases in a court which is in Telangana.


Since the Naidu government and the TDP runs the Andhra Assembly without any significant opposition, Jaganmohan Reddy and his YSR Congress is the only defacto competition. Telangana may dismiss the cases against Jaganmohan, making life easier for him - something Naidu may wish to avoid.

 

TDP leaders are eagerly awaiting the outcome of Jagan’s cases investigated by the CBI - as they are hoping for a guilty verdict. They've been worried that the bifurcation of the High Court and its judicial officers might derail their political hopes.

 

“As per the jurisdiction of offences in Jagan’s disproportionate cases, the cases come under the jurisdiction of Telangana CBI and Hyderabad CBI court.  This would mean that it would fall under the administrative control of Telangana High Court and government if the High Court were to be bifurcated. It may bring in a qualitative change in the trial of these cases,” senior advocate V Ashokvardhan Reddy told Asianet Newsable.


“People want justice, whether the court is stationed at an iconic building or a thatched hut. When Andhra Pradesh was formed in 1953, after the division from composite Madras, the High Court was shifted to the Guntur’s district court. The great Andhra leaders did not wait for the construction of an iconic building like Naidu,” Reddy said.

 

Many T-advocates feel that if about 140 Andhra judges are allocated to Telangana, the state government would have to post one of them in the CBI court eventually, and Telangana judges would lose an opportunity to work in the CBI court of their state.

 

“If fairly dealt, many of the cases booked against Jaganmohan Reddy would get quashed. Apprehensive of this prospect, Andhra chief minister Naidu might be thinking of continuing the status quo which is now free of Telangana control,” many striking advocates felt.

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