New Delhi: The Supreme Court, which had issued notices to the Meghalaya Government and seven others in the case related to the ST status of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and stayed the proceedings of the state level scrutiny committee, will hear the case on July 21.
Court sources said here on Tuesday.
Besides Meghalaya Government, the other recipients of the notice are- the Union Government, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, the Election Commissions of India, the Scrutiny Committee, the Chief Minister himself besides his brother Zenith Sangma and sister Tripti Rani.
“The writ petitions along with applications will be posted for hearing on July 21,” the order said adding “if the parties remain absent either personally or through counsel, the matter will be decided and determined in absentia.”
The bench comprising Chief Justice R M Lodha and three others was hearing a PIL filed by All Northeast Indigenous Garo Law Promoters Association and one by Tennydard M Marak seeking its direction to hold inquiry into the ST status of Sangma and cancellation of the certificate issued to him on June 23, 1982. The apex court combined both the petitions and took up for hearing.
