On April 10, the Supreme Court of India stated that it would hear a plea of the Meghalaya Government challenging the High Court’s order which had put a stay on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Assam and Meghalaya to resolve the long-standing interstate boundary dispute in July.
Supreme Court To Hear Plea In July
In this regard, a Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala said the plea was wrongly listed today by the Registry and will take it up for hearing in July.
It is mentioned the Meghalaya High Court on December 8, 2022 had put an interim stay on the execution of the Assam-Meghalaya border pact.
While approaching the top court against the High Court’s order, the Meghalaya Government said, ”The issues concerning the alteration of boundaries or exchange of areas between two states are a purely political question within the sole domain of the Executive.”
”The MoU signed by the two states is a sovereign act between the states to demarcate the boundaries in a fair and transparent manner which cannot be interfered with by way of a writ petition and much less by passing an interim order,” it added.
