Hyderabad: TRS MP B. Vinod Kumar on Thursday said his party had moved a private member’s amendment Bill to the AP Reorganisation Act in Lok Sabha in 2015 for fixing a time limit for bifurcation of the High Court.
Referring to Supreme Court observations on the issue that there is no clarity on when and how High Court should bifurcated in AP Reorganisation Act in a case, Mr Vinod Kumar said that to overcome such lacunae, he had moved Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill on November 17, 2015 which was pending in Parliament.
“In in sub-section (2) of Section 31 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, the following proviso shall be added at the end, namely:— "Provided that the notified order shall be issued within a maximum period of two years from the coming into force of this Act."
Section 31 of the Act clearly states that the principal seat of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh shall be at such place as the President may, by notified order, appoint.
“Thus, all that is necessary for bifurcation of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh is a notified order, which essentially means a Cabinet decision. However, for some inexplicable reason, this decision has been pending ever since the passage of the Act in the year 2014. This is a denial of the legitimate right of both TS and AP to have their own High Courts,” Mr Vinod Kumar said.
He said in order to expedite this process, the Bill, therefore, seeks to amend the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 with a view to put a time limit so that the bifurcation is done by April, 2016.
