Meghalaya HC orders interim keep on Assam-Meghalaya border pact

By PTI

SHILLONG:  The Meghalaya High Court has ordered an interim keep on bodily demarcation or erection of boundary posts on the bottom in reference to an interstate border pact signed by chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya earlier this yr.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and his counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma had in March signed an MoU for demarcating the border in not less than six of the 12 contested areas that always raised tensions between the 2 states.

Justice H S Thangkhiew ordered the interim keep until the following date of listening to on February 6, 2023, on a petition filed by 4 ‘conventional chiefs’ of Meghalaya.

“It is however understood that during the intervening period, no physical demarcation or erection of boundary posts on the ground, pursuant to the MoU dated 29.03. 2022 shall be carried out, till the next date,” Justice Thangkhiew mentioned.

The ‘conventional chiefs’ of their petition had urged the excessive court docket to put aside the MoU signed between the 2 northeastern states, claiming that it violated provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, which offers with particular provisions for administration of tribal areas.

SHILLONG:  The Meghalaya High Court has ordered an interim keep on bodily demarcation or erection of boundary posts on the bottom in reference to an interstate border pact signed by chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya earlier this yr.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and his counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma had in March signed an MoU for demarcating the border in not less than six of the 12 contested areas that always raised tensions between the 2 states.

Justice H S Thangkhiew ordered the interim keep until the following date of listening to on February 6, 2023, on a petition filed by 4 ‘conventional chiefs’ of Meghalaya.

“It is however understood that during the intervening period, no physical demarcation or erection of boundary posts on the ground, pursuant to the MoU dated 29.03. 2022 shall be carried out, till the next date,” Justice Thangkhiew mentioned.

The ‘conventional chiefs’ of their petition had urged the excessive court docket to put aside the MoU signed between the 2 northeastern states, claiming that it violated provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, which offers with particular provisions for administration of tribal areas.