By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Law Minister Rowell Lyngdoh on Thursday said that the Government will take action as may be deemed fit against Additional Advocate General SP Mahanta after the Court of the Deputy Commissioner (Judicial) declared the possession of land by him at Lower Lachumiere as illegal.
Lyngdoh, who is currently in New Delhi for medical checkup, said that he has directed the Law Secretary to check the records for verifying the court order as appeared in different sections of the media.
“We have to verify and if the court indicates we will have to take action naturally,” Lyngdoh said.
When asked if the Government will ask Mahanta to step down from the post, he refused to comment on the matter stating that he cannot say anything about the action to be taken against Mahanta.
The case relates to the petition of Tushar Nath Bhattacharjee, an NRI, who had filed a suit in 2004 against Mahanta and his wife, Vennetta Kharsyntiew, for the alleged illegal possession of the 14,285 sq feet property since 1992. Bhattacharjee had claimed that this was his parental property.
Though a lower court here had on February 10 last year dismissed the case, Bhattacharjee made an appeal against the lower court verdict and Court of the Deputy Commissioner (Judicial) in its order had declared the possession of the land by him as illegal.
The Court had also directed Mahanta to give up not only the land measuring 14,285 sq. feet at Lower Lachumiere but also the houses built on the land.