The difficulty has change into intractable because of lack of consensus among the many authorized fraternity, to not point out the divergent public opinion.

Advocates from Rayalaseema are insistent that institution of the Excessive Court docket in Kurnool will, moreover honouring the Sribagh Pact, give a fillip to the  improvement of the parched area, which has a few of the driest locations within the nation.

A few of them have apparently gone to the extent of demanding that the capital itself be arrange in Kurnool by citing the historic precedent of town being one until the unified State of Andhra Pradesh got here into existence in 1956.

On the flipside, advocates practising in Amaravati are arguing that mere shifting of the Excessive Court docket to Kurnool will certainly not play the anticipated catalytic position within the improvement of that area.

One other level being raised by them is that continuation of the Excessive Court docket in Amaravati shall be handy to the litigant public as a overwhelming majority of the circumstances are from the erstwhile Krishna, Guntur, East and West Godavari, and Visakhapatnam districts, which brings into image the issue in travelling from a spot so far as Itchapuram in Srikakulam district to Kurnool.

‘Arrange Benches in Kurnool, Vizag’

Other than this, a couple of advocates in Amaravati are suggesting that the federal government arrange a Bench in Kurnool and one other one in Visakhapatnam, and assuage the damage emotions and cater to the judicial necessities of these locations.

All-India Legal professionals’ Union State common secretary N. Srinivasa Rao mentioned the inherent jurisdiction of the Excessive Court docket shouldn’t be tinkered with, however its appellate and revisional jurisdiction could possibly be branched out by establishing Benches in Visakhapatnam and Kurnool.

If in any respect the Excessive Court docket have been to be moved to Kurnool, the related provision of the A.P. Reorganization Act, 2014, ought to be amended, he identified.

One other advocate in Amaravati noticed that if the problem was to be checked out from territorial perspective, there was no have to shift the Excessive Court docket, and the federal government might consider establishing Benches, or completely hand over on decentralisation.

M.D.V. Jogaiah Sarma, a senior advocate in Kurnool, mentioned the Sribagh Pact envisaged the capital to be at one place and the Excessive Court docket to be ideally arrange in Rayalaseema, and it ought to be applied.

He identified that when the capital was moved from Kurnool to Hyderabad, folks of the area didn’t object. “Time has now come to satisfy their want to not less than have the Excessive Court docket of their midst,” he mentioned. 

Hundreds of advocates would profit if the Excessive Court docket was shifted to Kurnool, and it will spur financial exercise that will be good for the folks as an entire, Mr. Sarma averred.