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The High Court's decision was met with public disappointment and raised concerns about the judicial process in such serious cases. [7] Later, Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said the state government would go to the Supreme Court, if needed, after reviewing the Gauhati High Court's decision. [5]
Bhaskar Dev Konwar, an advocate, filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Gauhati High Court seeking an official inquiry into Jhankar's killing. [6] Following this, the case was handed to the Criminal Investigation Department. [7] The Gauhati High Court also issued notice to the Assam government for the delayed investigation. [8]
Human rights abuses in Assam have been compared to the situation of human rights abuses in other insurgency-affected areas of northeast India. [1]The Indian Army has conducted massive search operations in "thousands of villages in Assam" during which actions were taken against peoples that included civilians and young people of having militant sympathies.
After Indian independence, the Assam Legislative Assembly adopted a resolution on 9 September 1947 that a High Court be established for the province of Assam. In exercise of power conferred by the Government of India Act 1935, the Governor General of India on 1 March 1948 promulgated the Assam High Court Order, 1948, establishing the High Court of Assam.
The Act was challenged by Sarbananda Sonowal in courts. In 2005 a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India held that the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983 and rules "has created the biggest hurdle and is the main impediment or barrier in the identification and deportation of illegal migrants" and struck down the Act.
Assam Lok Adalat or Assam State Legal Services Authority (People's Court) is an statutory and autonomous body and an alternative dispute resolution mechanism used in the state of Assam. The Assam Lok Adalat Act is designed to provide constitutional protection guaranteed under Article 14 and 39-A of the Constitution of India , of "ACCESS TO ...
The court gave notice to the government on the petitions and allowed one month to respond in the next hearing in February. [288] The Supreme Court also segregated the case of Assam and Tripura considering the fact of cross-border infiltration and assured of looking into the matter separately. [289]
Machal Lalung was a member of the Tiwa (Lalung) tribe of Assam from the village of Khalagaon (now Silchang) in Morigaon, Assam, who spent 54 years in an Indian jail without facing trial. He was arrested on the charges of "causing grievous harm" in 1951, and transferred to a psychiatric institution in Tezpur , where he was forgotten.