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V. Raghavendra

No complete proposal to shift Andhra Pradesh High Court to Kurnool is pending with the Centre: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju

VIJAYAWADA

Like the proposed shifting of the capital of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) to Visakhapatnam in the name of ‘executive capital’, the State government’s plan to move the principal seat of the High Court (HC) to Kurnool, which is sought to be developed as the ‘judicial capital’, is stuck in litigation in the HC itself. 

While stating in a written reply to a question asked by YSR Congress MPs Chinta Anuradha and Kotagiri Sridhar in the Lok Sabha on Friday that the matter is sub-judice, Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju said the Chief Minister came up with the idea of shifting the HC to Kurnool in February, 2020 but ‘no complete proposal is pending with the government’. 

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