SHILLONG, MAY 14: Meghalaya deputy chief minister Rowell Lyngdoh revealed that Meghalaya additional advocate general SP Mahanta is likely to be removed after the district court indicted him in the land grabbing case.
Lyngdoh told reporters, “The law and the political department are scrutinising the order of the court and the additional advocate general will be removed based on the order of the court,”
Chief Judicial Magistrate Baphindalin Giri had reversed and set aside the a ruling of the assistant deputy commissioner Febroneus Silkam Sangma favouring Mahanta in February 10 last year.
Lyngdoh said that the delay of the government in deciding on Mahanta’s removal was because he had been in Delhi but now he said all court papers related to the case of Mahanta is being carefully studied.
Even as Mahanta said he will not resign from the additional advocate general post sources close to him revealed that he is likely to file an appeal against Giri’s order.
In her judgment Giri had maintained that the sale deed is “not a legally valid document” based on which Mahanta claimed possession of the 14,285 sq ft of land owned by a non-resident Indian Tushar Nath Bhattacharjee.
The owners are “entitled to get back possession of the piece or parcel of land with the housing standing thereon,” Giri order read..
In 2011, the state government was under pressure to remove Mahanta from AAG post when the case first came to the focus of the public Eventually, the government asked Mahanta to step down, which he did. But the senior lawyer was re-instated when the Trial Court granted him relief in the case last year.- By Our Reporter
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