New Delhi, Aug. 20: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed two public interest litigations opposing creation of a new state of Telangana, saying a stage has not come for judicial intervention as the matter currently is only political and the decision should be left to the political entities.
“We are of the view that at this stage the larger constitutional view does not arise. These are political questions as and when such law (for creation of new state) is passed, we will consider at that stage,” a bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S. Radhakrishnan said.
The bench, however, gave liberty to petitioners — Bondada Purushottam Yadav and K. Srinivas Reddy — to “file fresh petitions at an appropriate stage.”
They had filed the PILs after Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s pronouncement in December 2009 that Centre has set in motion the process for creation of Telangana.