Bifurcation of High Court

Hyderabad, December 28: Lawyers from Telangana were in celebration mode, in other hand lawyers from Andhra Pradesh staged a dharna on the roads outside the High Court after it declared that Andhra Pradesh would have its own High Court in Amaravathi from January 1st 2019. On Wednesday, The Union Law Ministry issued an order signed by President Ram Nath Kovind, Which said that Andhra Pradesh will have its own High Court in Amaravathi and The High Court in Hyderabad will be The High Court of Telangana. Speaking to reporters, the lawyers demanded that the Center take back the gazette notification, and argued that three days were not enough to shift to Amaravati when the construction of the temporary Andhra Pradesh High Court was yet to be completed.

The notification issued on Wednesday said,"In pursuance of article 214 of the Constitution and the Order issued by the Supreme Court of India and in exercise of powers conferred under the Andhra Pradesh Re organisation Act, 2014, the President hereby constitutes a separate High Court for the State of Andhra Pradesh from January 1, 2019 with the principal seat at Amaravati and the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad shall become the High Court for the State of Telangana."

Justice Ramesh Ranganathan will be first justice for the new high court of the country in Amaravathi. Currently, he is serving as the Cheif Justice of High Court in Uttarakhand. High Court of Andhra Pradesh will have 15 judges besides the Cheif Justice. judges of the Common Court will serve in High Court in Telangana. Justice Praveen Kumar will serve as Cheif Justice in the High Court of Telangana.