Division bench to hear Section 8 plea

Hyderabad: Justice A.V. Sesha Sai of the Hyderabad High Court referred a petition to a division bench seeking to direct the Centre to issue orders to the Telangana government for implementation of Section 8 of the AP State Reorganisation Act, 2014. Andhra Association of Telangana, represented by its president K. Veera Raghava Reddy, moved the plea seeking that the court declare as illegal, the action of the Telangana government in discharging the functions of law and order in the common capital Hyderabad contrary to Section 8 of the Act.

He urged the court to issue directions to the effect that the administration of law and order in Hyderabad will not be under exclusive control of the Telangana DGP.
Justice Sesha Sai felt that the case involves public interest and directed the registry to post the case before division bench.

Full bench to deal with habeas issue

A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice S.V. Bhatt of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday referred to the full bench a question whether the writ of habeas corpus can be issued in cases filed by persons detained under the Preventive Detention Act or not.

The bench was dealing with two habeas corpus petitions filed by family members of two persons who were detained under the Preventive Detention Act seeking to direct the police to produce the detenues before the court.

P. Venugopal, advocate-general of AP, opposed the habeas corpus petitions and said that a division bench of the High Court had already made it clear that the cases of detention should be challenged under the Preventive Detention Act and not by filing habeas corpus petitions. Senior counsel C.V. Mohan Reddy, appearing for the petitioners, said that cases of detention were being filed in the form of habeas corpus petitions and it has become a convention for the past five decades. The bench said that it is referring the question to a full bench comprising three judges.