Disha special courts

Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed on 03.02.2020 to state officials to set up Disha special courts where cases under the Disha Act can be heard, and also focus on addressing the infrastructural issues for effective implementation of the Act. the Disha Act had proved to be a deterrent to the criminals as there was 7.5% reduction in crime rate in 2020 when compared to that of 2019. 

Disha Act,2019
​The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Friday passed the Andhra Pradesh Disha Bill, 2019 (Andhra Pradesh Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2019). The bill provides for awarding death sentence for offences of rape and gangrape and expediting trials of such cases to within 21 days.
The Act envisages the completion of investigation in seven days and trial in 14 working days, where there is adequate conclusive evidence, and reducing the total judgment time to 21 days from the existing four months. The AP Disha Act also prescribes life imprisonment for other sexual offences against children

Disha special courts
​In the AP Disha Act, 2019, the government will establish exclusive special courts in each district to ensure speedy trial. These courts will exclusively deal with cases of offences against women and children including rape, acid attacks, stalking, voyeurism, social media harassment of women, sexual harassment and all cases under the POCSO Act. The state government has introduced the ‘Andhra Pradesh Special Courts for Specified Offences against Women & Children Act, 2019′.