AGARTALA, Dec 10: Lok Sabha member representing Tripura Khagen Das urged the Centre to speed up the process of setting up a separate High Court in the State. Das stated in Parliament yesterday that Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and the Tripura Legislative Assembly and Bar Association of Tripura (BAT) had been demanding a full-fledged High Court instead of a permanent bench of the Guwahati High Court in Agartala for past few years and several memos were sent to the Law Ministry and the Chief Minister also met Prime Minister on the issue but no positive action was taken so far.
“It has been a long-standing demand of the State and last year a team of lawyers met the Prime Minister urging for a separate High Court. Despite assurances, nothing positive came out of it increasing the number of pending cases in the State,” Das underlined.
Tripura housed a separate High Court even in the royal regime but with the enactment of the Northeastern Areas Re-organization Act, the Union Law Ministry brought Tripura under the Guwahati High Court and in 1992 a bench for Tripura was opened,” he stated and sought immediate intervention of the Centre on the issue. (UNI)
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