Petitioner has filed this writ petition, praying to quash the notification No. RPS 117/2004 dated 4th June, 2008, issued by the respondent. By the said notification, it was notified that, the Hon’ble Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka, has been pleased to order that, sittings of the Hon’ble Judges and Division Courts at the Circuit Benches at Dharwad and Gulbarga, will commence on 7.7.2008 and that the cases arising from the Districts named therein, will be heard and decided at the respective Circuit Benches and that the pending cases from the districts concerned, will be transferred to the respective Circuit Bench, before 7.7.2008 and that the filing of new cases at the Circuit Bench will be permitted from 7.7.2008.

2. Petitioner, claims to be resident of Bellary and to have suits and appeals pending in the Courts at Bellary and in the High Court of Karnataka, Bangalore. According to him, the aforesaid notification is opposed to the spirit and essence of the States Re-organisation Act, 1956 (for short ‘the Act’) and there cannot be territorial bifurcation in the case of Circuit Benches and assigning of the districts to the respective Benches amounts to territori