The Supreme Court of India has overturned a significant judgment by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, which had quashed a batch of First Information Reports (FIRs) registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Vijayawada. The High Court had dismissed these FIRs, filed between 2016 and 2020, on the hyper-technical ground that the ACB's Central Investigation Unit in Vijayawada was not explicitly notified as a 'police station' under Section 2(s) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, following the 2014 bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. However, a Supreme Court bench, comprising Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma, found the High Court's approach to be an "impermissibly hyper-technical approach that resulted in serious miscarriage of justice" and even a "travesty of justice." The apex court clarified that the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, creates a legal fiction allowing existing laws, including a 2003 government order designating ACB offices as police stations, to continue applying to the successor states without requiring a fresh notification. Furthermore, the Court noted that a 2022 government order clarifying the status of the Vijayawada ACB office was merely clarificatory and not a fresh jurisdictional creation. This landmark ruling restores the quashed FIRs, permitting the Anti-Corruption Bureau to continue investigations into graft cases across the state. The Supreme Court has directed the ACB to file final reports within six months. It also imposed a restriction on the Andhra Pradesh High Court, barring it from entertaining any further challenges to these FIRs on the same jurisdictional grounds, thereby preventing investigations from being stalled further. This decision is a significant boost to anti-corruption efforts in Andhra Pradesh, ensuring that technicalities do not derail justice.