Deccan
Chronicle: Hyderabad: Sunday, 26 October 2014.
The Centre has asked the Chief Justice of the
Hyderabad High Court to initiate the process for setting up a separate High
Court for Andhra Pradesh.
This information was disclosed by the Department
of Justice, Government of India, under the Right to Information Act to Gandra
Mohan Rao, a practising advocate of the High Court.
The advocate had applied to the Department of
Justice under the RTI Act seeking information with regard to setting up of a
separate High Court for AP.
Mr H.C. Bhatia, deputy secretary to the
department, in his letter to the advocate, informed that the existing strength
of judges in the common High Court is proposed to be bifurcated in the ratio of
60:40 between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states respectively. The sanctioned
strength of the existing High Court is 49 judges.
The AP Reorganisation Act stipulated that there
shall be a separate High Court for AP and the High Court of Judicature at
Hyderabad shall become the High Court for Telangana.
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