High Court seeks clarity on jurisdiction over Andhra Pradesh

DC | S A ISHAQUI

Published Jun 21, 2014, 7:47 am IST

Court asked whether the existing judges of High Court had power to deal with AP cases

 AP High Court. (Photo: DC/File)

Hyderabad: Certain provisions of the AP Reorganisation Bill, 2014, have left the judges of the Hyderabad High Court in a dilemma while dealing with cases pertaining to Andhra Pradesh.
Justice L. Narasimha Reddy on Friday asked the Union of India, ministry of law and ministry of home to clarify whether the existing judges of the common High Court had power to deal with cases pertaining to Andhra Pradesh.

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While dealing with a contempt case, the judge pointed out that Section 30 of the AP Reorganisation Act directed that on and from the Appointed Day, which is notified by the President of India on June 2, the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad would be the common High Court for both the states till a separate High Court for the state of AP was formed under Article 214 of the Constitution read with Section 31 of the Act.
The judge said that prima facie, Parliament had decided to constitute a separate High Court for AP through Sections 31 and 32 of the Act. The seat of the High Court for the state of AP was left to be notified under Section 31 and the allocation of judges for functioning in the High Court of AP from the date determined by the President of India was to be done under Section 32 of the Act.

Hyderabad mosque to provide bathing service to dead

DECCAN CHRONICLE | S.A. ISHAQUI

Published Jun 14, 2015, 6:52 am IST

First-of-a-kind facility at Masjid Tek

 The facilities at the Ghusul Khana-e-Mayyat

Hyderabad: The managing committee of the Masjid Tek at Nampally has decided to provide the facility to wash dead bodies within the mosque premises. It will be a free-of-cost facility extended to all deserving Muslims. The committee has constructed a ‘Ghusul Khana-e-Mayyat’ with modern facilities for washing and shrouding of bodies before they are taken to the graveyard for burial.

Muneeruddin Muqtar, the president of the managing committee, said, “Many Muslims are not able to perform the Ghusul (washing of the dead body), for their near and dear ones when they die, at their homes due to lack of space. In many apartment complexes, other residents raise objections. In such circumstances, it becomes very difficult to wash the dead bodies.”

The committee decided the construct a Ghusul Khana for such people. Akbaruddin Owaisi, the MIM floor leader in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, along with several prominent Muslim scholars and religious leaders, inspected the Ghusul Khana on Saturday and praised the mosque committee for providing the facility. Mr Muqtar said that it is a first-of-its-kind facility in the city.