Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014

The petitioners, K. Purushottam Reddy and others, challenged two notifications issued by the Union of India that effected delimitation of constituencies only for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, arguing that the exclusion of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana violated Article 14 and the statutory manda…

The petitioners were appointed as Chairmen, Vice‑Chairmen and members of Agricultural Market Committees under the Andhra Pradesh (Agricultural Produce and Livestock) Markets Act, 1966. After the creation of Telangana in 2014, the State promulgated Ordinance No.1 of 2014 reducing the size of the committees, shortening t…

The case concerned the recruitment of Sub‑Engineers by the erstwhile AP‑Transco in 2011‑12 and the subsequent cancellation of that process by the newly formed TS‑Transco after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. The petitioners, who had been selected under the earlier notifications, challenged TS‑Transco’s 2017 notifica…

The Supreme Court examined whether the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 required the assets and liabilities of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSC) to be divided between the successor states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and whether the freezing of APSC’s bank accounts by banks on Telan…

The appellant, Sundew Properties Ltd., was notified by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry as a developer of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and claimed that, under the 2010 Notification inserting a proviso to section 14(b) of the Electricity Act, it automatically became a deemed distribution licensee without needing to …

APIIC invited bids to develop a 350‑acre aerospace park and awarded the contract to Unitech, which paid Rs 165 crore in installments. The contract was conditioned on the outcome of a pending litigation concerning the title to the land, which the Andhra Pradesh High Court and later this Court held that the government di…

Following the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the Ministry of Personnel allocated B. Subba Rayudu, a Joint Director (Class‑A) in the Animal Husbandry Department, to the residual State of Andhra Pradesh despite his exercise of the option to join Telangana, his seniority, and his spouse’s status as a local candidate of Te…

After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, a One‑Man Committee headed by Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari prepared a final report allocating 655 power‑utility employees from each state and the Supreme Court approved it on 7 December 2020. Eighty‑four former Andhra Pradesh power‑utility employees were relieved by their employer…

The respondents challenged a batch of FIRs registered between 2016 and 2020 at the Anti‑Corruption Bureau’s Central Investigation Unit in Vijayawada, alleging that the office had not been notified as a police station under Section 2(s) of the Code of Criminal Procedure and therefore lacked jurisdiction. The High Court …

The dispute arose after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, when the Telangana power utilities unilaterally transferred 1,157 employees to Andhra Pradesh utilities, prompting writ petitions. The High Court set aside the unilateral relief and directed a neutral allocation, which the Supreme Court upheld and appointed a O…

The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) issued a 2017 notification repatriating employees on deputation to their parent cadres in the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC). The employees challenged the repatriation, and the High Court initially stayed the orders, directing them to repo…

The Telangana Judges Association challenged the draft and modified guidelines for allocating subordinate judicial officers between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, arguing that the guidelines favored Andhra officers and violated their rights. The Supreme Court examined the constitutional scheme, the Andhra Pradesh Reorgan…

The State of Telangana and its agencies challenged the High Court's expansion of the definition of ‘local candidate’ under the Telangana Medical & Dental Colleges Admission Rules, 2017, arguing that the definition is prescribed by the Presidential Order issued under Article 371D and the 1983 Act and cannot be altered b…