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The High Court's decision was met with public disappointment and raised concerns about the judicial process in such serious cases. [ 7 ] Later, Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said the state government would go to the Supreme Court, if needed, after reviewing the Gauhati High Court's decision.
After Indian independence, the Assam Legislative Assembly adopted a resolution on 9 September 1947 that a High Court be established for the Province of Assam. In exercise of power conferred by the Government of India Act 1935, the Governor General of India on 1 March 1948 promulgated the Assam High Court Order, 1948, establishing the High Court of Assam.
Bhaskar Dev Konwar, an advocate, filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Gauhati High Court seeking an official inquiry into Jhankar's killing. [6] Following this, the case was handed to the Criminal Investigation Department. [7] The Gauhati High Court also issued notice to the Assam government for the delayed investigation. [8]
The absolute sanctioned number of judges was 34 in Supreme Court, 1108 in high courts, and 24,631 in district courts. [16] The law commission of India and Justice V S Malimath Committee had recommended in the past to raise the number of judges to 50 judges per million population, or 20,000 population per judge.
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest high court in the country, brought into existence on 14 May 1862. [2] High courts that handle numerous cases of a particular region have permanent benches established there. Benches are also present in states which come under the jurisdiction of a court outside its territorial limits.
The High Courts are the top judicial bodies in individual states, controlled and managed by Chief Justices of the respective courts. There are 25 High Courts in the country with seven of them having multiple jurisdictions. The High Courts manage a system of sub-ordinate courts headed by the various District and Session Courts in their ...
Human rights abuses in Assam have been compared to the situation of human rights abuses in other insurgency-affected areas of northeast India. [1]The Indian Army has conducted massive search operations in "thousands of villages in Assam" during which actions were taken against peoples that included civilians and young people of having militant sympathies.
Lawyers from both Gauhati High Court and the Sessions Court in Guwahati abstained from work and held protests outside the court premises. [ 16 ] A curfew was again clamped on the worst-hit Ganeshguri in the afternoon after the initial curfew was relaxed the previous evening, as an angry mob braved tight security in the presence of the city SS ...