Delimitation Issue
SC vacates Gauhati HC stay order:
Guwahati, Dec 21: The Supreme Court of India has vacated the Gauhati High Court stay on delimitation of constituencies and asked the Delimitation Commission to carry on the delimitation exercise.
The Gauhati High Court had ordered the stay on the delimitation process on June 24.
In its order on the issue, Justice R V Raveendran and Justice J M Panchal said on December 14 that the delay in filing the Special Leave Petition (SLP) on the matter was condoned and the notices should be served on the respondent parties.
The Delimitation Commission of India had moved the Apex Court challenging the Gauhati High Court stay order on the delimitation process.
However, Advocate R P Sarma of the Gauhati High Court who moved the High Court here urging for judicial intervention into the issue of delimiting the constituencies and obtained the stay subsequently, said on Friday he would move the Supreme Court in mid-January next pleading for vacating its December 14 order.
He said that he had moved the High Court considering the interest of the nation involved with the issue. Without the resolution of the citizenship issue by updating the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC), delimitation exercise in the State would affect the integrity of the country, Sarma said.
Considering the gravity of the issue, the Government of India had assured the Gauhati High Court that it would place Assam’s grievances before the Cabinet Sub-Committee, Sarma said.
He said that he would urge the Supreme Court to weigh the gravity of the situation vis-à-vis its verdict on the IMDT Act and the unabated influx of people from a neighbouring country the State is subjected to for decades now.
The issue as to whether the population from foreign countries could be treated as the citizens of India and could be included in the census process will also be placed before the Supreme Court as a poser, he said.
Posted On: The Assam Tribune
Guwahati, Dec 21: The Supreme Court of India has vacated the Gauhati High Court stay on delimitation of constituencies and asked the Delimitation Commission to carry on the delimitation exercise.
The Gauhati High Court had ordered the stay on the delimitation process on June 24.
In its order on the issue, Justice R V Raveendran and Justice J M Panchal said on December 14 that the delay in filing the Special Leave Petition (SLP) on the matter was condoned and the notices should be served on the respondent parties.
The Delimitation Commission of India had moved the Apex Court challenging the Gauhati High Court stay order on the delimitation process.
However, Advocate R P Sarma of the Gauhati High Court who moved the High Court here urging for judicial intervention into the issue of delimiting the constituencies and obtained the stay subsequently, said on Friday he would move the Supreme Court in mid-January next pleading for vacating its December 14 order.
He said that he had moved the High Court considering the interest of the nation involved with the issue. Without the resolution of the citizenship issue by updating the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC), delimitation exercise in the State would affect the integrity of the country, Sarma said.
Considering the gravity of the issue, the Government of India had assured the Gauhati High Court that it would place Assam’s grievances before the Cabinet Sub-Committee, Sarma said.
He said that he would urge the Supreme Court to weigh the gravity of the situation vis-à-vis its verdict on the IMDT Act and the unabated influx of people from a neighbouring country the State is subjected to for decades now.
The issue as to whether the population from foreign countries could be treated as the citizens of India and could be included in the census process will also be placed before the Supreme Court as a poser, he said.
Posted On: The Assam Tribune