AP High Court adjourns ‘three capitals’ cases to November 15
The Hindu
The judges conceded the pleas to put off the cases to November taking into account the likely resurgence of Covid and travel restrictions
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on August 23 adjourned the hearing on a host of petitions that challenged the AP Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions and CRDA Repeal Acts, 2020 to November 15 due to the threat of a third wave of the Covid pandemic upon requests for postponement made by some senior advocates through letters to the Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami on August 21. The thousands of farmers in the existing capital region of Amaravati who are aggrieved by the government’s proposal to shift the capital to Visakhapatnam in the name of ‘executive capital’, and others who called the ‘three capitals’ as a retrograde measure, have to now wait another 83 days for the High Court to possibly do a physical hearing of the cases in view of their urgency. It may be noted that the YSR Congress government had passed the above enabling legislations for developing Amaravati, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool as the legislative, executive and judicial capitals, in the Assembly last year but they hit a stumbling block in the Council as its Chairman Md. Ahmed Shariff referred them to a select committee.More Related News