The Supreme Court, on Friday, issued notice to Centre on Andhra Pradesh bifurcation petitions filed by former AP Chief Minister Kiran Reddy and others on creation of Telangana.
Apex court said a Constitution bench can decide whether stay can be granted on bifurcation of the state.
Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy had challenged the action of Parliament in passing the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013, despite the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly rejecting the Bill. The bench headed by Justice H.L. Dattu will hear the batch of petitions.
When he was in office, the former CM had announced that he will move the Supreme Court against the Reorganisation Bill as there were several technical and legal lapses in it, particularly with regard to the common capital and sharing of water and electricity between the two states.
Since the law requires the Cabinet to accord permission to the Chief Minister to move the court, there was nothing Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy could do then.
Apart from Kiran Kumar Reddy, the YSR Congress MP from Nellore, Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, BJP leader Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, former MLA Adusum-illi Jayaprakash and M.L. Sharma, an advocate of the Supreme Court, have moved petitions against the bifurcation.
The apex court had dismissed these petitions earlier, in October 2013, on the grounds that they were “premature” as the Bill had not then been cleared by Parliament.
On February 17, too, the Supreme Court refused to grant stay on tabling the Bill and the Bill was passed by both houses of Parliament on February 18 and 20 and the Centre has also announced the appointed date for the new state.
While dismissing the petitions on two occasions, the court had observed that it will examine all the arguments of the petitioners at an appropriate time. The petitioners are hoping that the appropriate time has come now, and they will be heard, as Parliament has passed the Bill and the Centre has announced the appointed date.
Source : DECCAN CHRONICLE
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