Hyderabad: A public interest litigation that challenges the Centre’s decision to take over irrigation and power projects on Krishna and Godavari in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh says the move is against the Constitution.
The case came up before a bench of with the court registry raising certain objections over the maintainability of the case itself since high courts cannot hear inter-state river water sharing disputes.
Additional advocate general J Ramachandra Rao told the bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice CV Bhaskar Reddy that the subject matter in the issue is not an inter-state water dispute.
Petitioner D Panduranga Reddy and two others from Telangana Development Forum, a non-profit organisation, said the Centre’s decision runs counter to the federal spirit and basic structure of the Constitution.
