MP Jamir raises separate High Court issue in Lok Sabha
Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha MP S Supongmeren Jamir has urged the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to urgently look into the long-standing issue of a separate High Court for the State of Nagaland
- DIMAPUR — Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha MP S
Supongmeren Jamir has urged the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to urgently look
into the long-standing issue of a separate High Court for the State of
Nagaland.
- The MP raised the issue in the Lok Sabha under Rule 377 of
‘Rules and Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha’ on Monday.
- In a supplementary summary statement, Jamir noted that the
State of Nagaland was formed on December 1, 1963 by the State of Nagaland Act,
1962, becoming the 16th state under the Union of India and the second senior
most state among the North-Eastern states next to Assam.
- “Section 13 of the State of Nagaland Act provides for a
common High Court for Assam and Nagaland. The States of Tripura, Meghalaya, and
Manipur have already established their own High Courts since 2013.
- “However, in spite of being the second senior most state
next to Assam in the North-Eastern region and provisions under Section 13 of
the State of Nagaland Act, 1962, Nagaland is deprived of the benefit of having
a separate High Court. To have a separate High Court is also mandated under
Article 214 of the Constitution of India,” the statement read.
- It also informed that the basic infrastructure for setting
up of separate High Court for the State of Nagaland is already available with
the completion of the new High Court building complex at Meriema.
- Since the setting up of a High Court for the State of
Nagaland would require an amendment of the North-Eastern Areas
(Re-organisation) Act, 1971, which falls within the purview of the Ministry of
Home Affairs, Jamir urged the ministry to take necessary steps for the
amendment of the said Act.
