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 orde...