The Supreme Court bench led by Justice Dattu and Justice Babde has dismissed all nine petitions filed against T-Bill today after hearing arguments made by senior advocates Nariman and Mohanlal Sharma on behalf of the petitioners. The arguments continued for around one and half hours, but at the end the apex court bench has made it clear that it doesn’t want to interfere in the bifurcation process at this stage.

The bench also said that it doesn’t find any difference between the previous and present petitions filed opposing bifurcation. Supreme Court also ignored the points raised by both lawyers of petitioners about Centre misusing article-3 and Assembly resolution passed against the T-Bill. The bench has not shown any interest to define the legal angle of Assembly rejecting the T-Bill sent by Centre.

Hence, a major hurdle in bifurcation process is cleared with Supreme Court’s latest verdict. This will encourage Cabinet to forward the T-Bill to President and he may approve and return to Cabinet without any second thought. However, if he wants to consider several appeals made by ruling and opposition parties including CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, he may put the bill on hold, but unlikely.

Next, if the Centre declares Hyderabad as union territory for 10 years, even TRS, which is fighting for separate state will oppose the bill in Parliament. So, Centre may scrap this idea and may push the bill through Parliament adopting ‘voice vote.’