![]() It also said the state requested the Centre to grant Rs 1.09 lakh crore for infrastructure development. Significantly, the state government filed an affidavit in the High Court on April 1 this year stating that trunk infrastructure in the capital would be developed in 60 months. The High Court had held that the state (government) and the AP Capital Region Development Authority violated the fundamental rights of the petitioners (farmers who parted with their land) and directed that the state construct and develop Amaravati capital city and capital region within six months time. The bench delivered a 300-page verdict on a batch of 63 writ petitions filed by aggrieved farmers of Amaravati region against the state government's decision to make Visakhapatnam the executive capital, Kurnool the judicial capital and confining Amaravati as the legislative capital of Andhra Pradesh. The facts on record like approval of passing of legislation (APCRDA Act, 2014) and taking up land under the Land Pooling Scheme under the APCRDA Act, 2014, payment of Rs 15,000 crore for capital city and region development is sufficient to conclude that Parliament delegated power to the state under Article 258 (2) of the Constitution of India, which is a one time delegation," the bench had observed. "Parliament alone is competent to undertake such exercise, but not the state legislature. In the common unanimous order, a three-member bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justices M Satyanarayana Murthy and Somayajulu on March 3 noted that the establishment of three organs of the state - legislature, executive, and judiciary - is part and parcel of the "supplemental, incidental or consequential provisions" employed in Article 4 of the Constitution. Official sources, however, said some "corrections" were required to be made in the SLP and a modified version would be filed in Supreme Court on Monday. Through the SLP, the state government sought to challenge the High Court judgment on six grounds, including the power to legislate. ![]()
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