The Gauhati High Court on April 18 dismissed a writ petition by two-time MP Naba Sarania, challenging a State Level Scrutiny Committee's order striking down his Scheduled Tribe status. A single-judge bench of Justice S K Medhi delivered the order, Assam’s advocate general Devajit Saikia told PTI. "The honourable court dismissed his writ petition, and did not give him any …
The division bench of Gauhati High Court on Wednesday set aside an interim order by a single bench which suspended an order passed by the State Level Caste Scrutiny Committee which opined that Naba Kumar Sarania, a sitting Lok Sabha member from Kokrajhar constituency does not belong to Bodo/Bodo Kachari community, which is a recognized ST community in Assam. Further, …
With the introduction of electric buses in the city in November 2021, UT transport department has saved nearly 20.38 lakh litre of diesel worth ₹17 crore so far, officials said. Chandigarh transport director Pradhuman Singh said, “The electric buses have so far covered a distance of 1.01 crore km on intra-city routes, saving 20.38 lakh litre of diesel and preventing …
The Tripura High Court recently dismissed the plea of a person claiming to belong to scheduled caste, seeking quashing the summons issued by Member-Secretary, State Level Scrutiny Committee calling upon the petitioner to appear before the Committee for verification. The decision came from Justice T. Amarnath Goud who held that merely because the Petitioner had a favourable report in his …
