Allahabad, Jan22: The Allahabad High Court today adjourned till January 28 hearing on several writ petitions challenging the Uttar Pradesh government's order to abolish nine districts of the state. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Ashok Bhushan passed the order on the writ petitions filed by the bar associations of Jyotibaphule Nagar , Auraiya,Gautambudh Nagar and Ambedkar Nagar districts challenging the abolition of these districts by the state government.
The court also ordered transfer of other writ petitions filed in the Lucknow bench with regard to abolition of five other districts which would also be heard by the bench along with those filed in the high court here.
The state government had through an order of January 12 abolished nine districts and four commissionerates citing financial and administrative reasons.
In the petitions, it was prayed that the state government notification be quashed on the ground that the said order was arbitrary and without application of mind as the reasons cited for disbanding nine districts have not be applied to four other districts which had also been created by earlier governments.
Bureau Report