Mukul to take final call on new AAG
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: It has been more than four months since former Additional Advocate General (AAG) SP Mahanta resigned following the controversy over the alleged land-grab case, but no new AAG has been appointed in the State till date.
The Law Department has already proposed the name ODB Ladia , the former principal of the Shillong Law College, for the post, sources said on Wednesday.
The file pertaining to the appointment of a new AAG is presently with the Chief Minister. He will decide Mahanta’s successor.
Sources maintained that the AAG appointment has been delayed because three to four more persons were eyeing the post. ‘Only deserving person will get the job,” sources added.
When contacted, Deputy Chief Minister and in charge Law Department Bindo M Lanong said, “I shall take up the matter with the Chief Minister after his return from Geneva trip.”
Reacting to a query on the Law Department’s proposal on Ladia, Lanong said, “It is just a proposal and nothing has been decided yet”.
It may be mentioned that Mahanta had resigned on March 11 from the post after a 72-year-old Tushar Nath Bhattacharjee had alleged that the former had fraudulently grabbed his land in Lower Lachumiere in the city. Bhattacharjee, a retired employee of the PWD in Australia, had filed a case against the former official and his wife in the court of the East Khasi Hills district magistrate in April, 2004 for the alleged illegal encroachment of 14,285 square feet property.
