Sweta Singh-
Published on: August 23, 2021, at 18:48 IST
Soon after the Chief Justice and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and N. Jayasurya initiate the hearing on August 23, the requests for adjournment contrail by the likely revitalization of Covid and the travel regulation were taken to their notice and the judges accept the pleas to hold off the cases till November 15.
On August 23 The Andhra Pradesh High Court adjourned the hearing on a host of petitions that challenged the AP Decentralisation and Comprehensive Development of All Regions and CRDA Repeal Acts, 2020 to November 15 due to the risk of a third wave of the Covid pandemic upon requests for determent made by some senior advocates through letters to the Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami on August 21.
The thousands of aggrieved farmers by the government’s proposal to shift the capital to Visakhapatnam in the name of ‘executive capital’ in the existing capital region of Amravati, 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 given their seriousness.
Ultimately, the Assembly adopted a settlement for the annulment of the TDP dominated Council itself and sent a proposition to that effect to the Central government, with which the matter is still pending.
Though due to the urging that the cases should be posted to a later date to be attentive of Covid, especially looking at how it is hitting the USA again and the risk impending in India, the court may agree to the adjournment, the Attorney General told the court, which made clear that it will not entertain requests for adjournment on account of counsel inconvenience after November 15.