High Court Chief Justice administers oath of office to seven new judges in Andhra Pradesh High Court

• The Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra administered an oath of office to seven newly appointed judges here on Monday. With this, the number of Judges in the AP High Court rose to 26.
• The judge designates who were sworn-in as judges of AP High Court are: Konakanti Sreenivasa Reddy, Gannamaneni Ramakrishna Prasad, Venkateswarlu Nimmagadda, Tarlada Rajasekhar Rao, Satti Subba Reddy, Ravi Cheemalapati and Vaddiboyana Sujatha.
• Earlier, President Ram Nath Kovind appointed the seven judges to the Andhra Pradesh High Court following a notification issued by the Union ministry of law and justice on the appointment of judges to AP HC. The Supreme Court Collegium approved the proposal for the elevation of seven advocates as judges to the AP High Court.
• The number of posts of judges in AP High Court are 37 and at present there are only 20 judges functioning. After the appointment of the seven new judges which appears to be a formality, their number will increase to 27.

The High Court of Andhra Pradesh State has been established in the year 1954 consequent upon formation of the State of Andhra, separated from the erstwhile Madras Presidency with the Principal Seat at Guntur. In the year 1956, Hyderabad State and Andhra State had been merged and state of Andhra Pradesh formed. High Court of Andhra Pradesh had been established with Principal seat at Hyderabad and started functioning with the first team of 11 Hon’ble Judges.

In the year 2014, the State of Andhra Pradesh had been bifurcated and new States viz., State of Telangana and State of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad became the common High Court for the two states i.e. State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh as “High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh” w.e.f. 02.06.2014, by virtue of Section 30(1) of part IV of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 and started functioning from the said date at Hyderabad.

As per the Order of the Government of India, dated 26.12.2018, the common High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the for the State of Andhra Pradesh has been bifurcated and new High Courts viz., High Court for the State of Telangana and High Court of Andhra Pradesh have been established and they have started functioning from 01.01.2019 High Court of Andhra Pradesh was established with Principal seat at Amaravati.

The High Court of Andhra Pradesh started functioning with the first team of 14 Hon’ble Judges. Hon’ble Sri Justice C. Praveen Kumar being the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

The Interim Judicial Complex at Amaravati from where the High Court of Andhra Pradesh is functioning now has been inaugurated on 03/02/2019 by the Hon’ble Sri Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Chief Justice of India, in the presence of Hon’ble Sri Justice N.V.Ramana, Judge, Supreme Court of India, Hon’ble Sri Justice L.Nageswara Rao, Judge, Supreme Court of India, and Hon’ble Sri Justice R. Subhash Reddy, Judge, Supreme Court of India. The High Court of Andhra Pradesh started its judicial and Administrative functions from the Interim judicial Complex, Nelapadu, Amaravati from 18.03.2019.