Court defers PIL hearing
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28/04/2011
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Telegraph (North East)
Guwahati, April 27: Gauhati High Court today deferred the hearing of a PIL submitted by Assam Enviro-Legal Protection Society, an NGO, alleging Rs 7 crore was misappropriated in 2008 in the name of cashew nut cultivation in Dima Hasao district, to next week.
Justice Arun Chandra Upadhyay fixed the next hearing after the petitioner submitted the action taken report on the report submitted by Justice (retd) R.K. Manisana Singh Commission that had probed the diversion of funds meant for development to the coffers of DHD (J) militants in the district, as a supporting document.
The counsel of the petitioner, Nazrul Islam Mazarbhuyan, said the court, during its last hearing on February 25 had asked them to submit the report as the supporting document and accordingly they presented it.