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Advocates rally for HC bifurcation
Normal functioning of the High Court was disrupted on Tuesday as a large number of advocates staged a protest seeking immediate division of the High Court. Telangana Advocates, who came all the way from districts to Hyderabad, formed a human chain at Madina Centre, en route to the High Court, and shouted slogans seeking separate High Court for Telangana.
Hyderabad: Normal functioning of the High Court was disrupted on Tuesday as a large number of advocates staged a protest seeking immediate division of the High Court. Telangana Advocates, who came all the way from districts to Hyderabad, formed a human chain at Madina Centre, en route to the High Court, and shouted slogans seeking separate High Court for Telangana. Telangana Advocates boycotted duties and joined the protests.
They demanded that recruitment of the judges should not be taken up until the High Court was divided. Advocates in large numbers proceeded towards the court and staged a protest on the premises for some time disrupting the normal functioning. The lawyers’ protest resulted in traffic chaos for some time.
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They also warned that they would intensify the protest and take up a mass movement to mount pressure on the Centre to bifurcate the court Advocates’ JAC Convenor Ranga Rao said that ever since the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956, advocates of Telangana have been facing discrimination with regard to appointments to various judicial offices.
The number of judges from Telangana in the High Court of AP has always been very low. Only 47 are from Telangana as against a total of 186 judges appointed so far to the High Court since its inception, he said. As of now, out of the working strength of 30 judges, only six are from Telangana. Telangana advocates feel that establishment of a separate court will solve their long pending grievance.
There are another 20 vacancies in the joint High Court. If these vacancies are filled without bifurcating the court, injustice would be perpetrated as there is no guarantee that all of them or majority of them will be from TS. If the High Court is divided then Telangana State will get about five posts, Rao added. Meanwhile, the Telangana JAC advocates have called off the Chalo High Court programme scheduled for Wednesday following an appeal by the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
