The demand for a separate High Court for Telangana state is now echoing the Delhi durbar. Telangana advocates, along with TRS and BJP leaders from Telangana, met Union law minister Ravi Shanker Prasad in New Delhi and submitted a memorandum urging the Centre to take immediate steps to establish separate High Courts for Telangana Andhra Pradesh. Senior BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya, TRS MP B. Vinod Kumar, along with the advocates met the Union law minister. The advocates, who have launched a stir, expressed anguish over the abnormal delay in setting up of new High Courts, which would not only ease work in either state but create more employment opportunities and also ensure promotions for judicial officers. While promises made to AP in ...

Telangana Advocates’ Joint Action Committee on Thursday boycotted the courts, demanding bifurcation of the existing common High Court for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. They also boycotted the courts in the 10 Telangana districts. Dozens of advocates have been arrested when they raised slogans at the premises. Advocates from all over Telangana State came to the High Court to extend support to the relay hunger strike which entered its ninth day on Thursday and hold demonstration outside the premises. As soon as the court resumed for the day, several JAC members appealed to the lawyers of Seemandhra to abstain from work as well. Consequently, majority of them came out of the court halls, stalling court proceedings.  As soon as the advocates started raising ...

The law ministry has written to the chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh high court for creation of separate high courts for the new states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The government has decided to create separate HCs for the two states after the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act came into force on June 2. The government has also increased the strength of the two proposed high courts to 61 judges. The current sanctioned strength of the AP high court is 49 with at least 15 vacancies. The government recently reviewed the matter after the creation of Telangana. The Supreme Court too has been apprised of the decision to have separate HCs. In the existing Andhra HC, there are 33 positions ...