SHILLONG: The CSWO on Wednesday asked Law Secretary, LM Sangma, to file an FIR within seven days after it learnt that several gazettes and official notification had gone missing.
CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing informed that she had filed an RTI application with the Printing and Stationery Department asking for all the gazettes of 1972, but the department replied was that they were not able to trace all the gazettes for that year.
Kharshiing, further, informed that she had also filed an RTI with the Law Department asking for all the Acts passed by the Meghalaya Government from 1972 till Sept 9, 2013, but she received only some of the Acts which were available with the Department.
According to Kharshiing, after compiling the Acts of 1972 and 1973, which were made available to her through the PIO, Law (B) Department, she found that many main Acts had gone missing.
“This is very serious considering that such documents should be well preserved and saved, and this poses a threat to the security of the State which is of grave danger, as Acts can be tampered with as is visible in the Meghalaya Transfer of Land (Regulation) Act 1972, where the Act was never amended in 1979, and 1991, yet it is now available as amended,” Kharshiing said.
She also said that the Law Department should seek for a thorough investigation, by the CID, to go into the details of the missing Acts and unmask the culprits involved in the case.