Lakshadweep administration denies shifting its authorized jurisdiction to Karnataka

By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Lakshadweep Administration on Sunday categorically denied that it was shifting its authorized jurisdiction from the High Court of Kerala to the High Court of Karnataka amid studies {that a} transfer is being initiated to shift the authorized jurisdiction because the administration was dealing with a number of litigations on the Kerala High Court.

“There is no proposal of Lakshadweep Administration to shift its legal jurisdiction from the High Court of Kerala to the High Court of Karnataka,” mentioned S Asker Ali, Secy IPR & District Collector, Lakshadweep.

The Lakshadweep administration has been dealing with widespread protests from the islanders over a few of its insurance policies. 

These selections included revising normal working procedures for Covid acceptable behaviour, the introduction of the “goonda act” and demolishing hutments of fishermen for the widening of roads.

Several litigations had been moved earlier than the Kerala High Court in opposition to the choices taken by the islands’ new administrator Praful Khoda Patel. 

This 12 months, as many as 23 functions, together with 11 writ petitions, have been filed in opposition to the administrator of Lakshadweep and in addition in opposition to the alleged high-handedness of both the police or the native authorities of the islands.

Earlier on Sunday, PTI reported that for causes greatest identified to the island’s administration, which is underneath the highlight over its dealing with of those points, it has made a proposal for shifting its authorized jurisdiction from the excessive court docket of Kerala to Karnataka. 

Collector Ali, nonetheless, instructed TNIE: “The information about shifting of the jurisdiction of the excessive court docket from Kerala to Karnataka is baseless and is devoid of reality, “

The jurisdiction of a excessive court docket may be shifted solely by means of an act of Parliament, based on the regulation. 

“Parliament may by law constitute a high court for a Union Territory or declare any court in any such territory to be a high court for all or any of the purposes of this Constitution,” based on Article 241 of the Constitution.

Section 4 of the identical article mentions that “nothing in this article derogates from the power of Parliament to extend or exclude the jurisdiction of a high court for a state to, or from, any Union Territory or part thereof”.