President Pratibha Patil has given her formal approval for setting up separate high courts in three northeastern states — Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya.<\/p>\n
“We received the copy of the much awaited act on Saturday,” Tripura’s Law Department Secretary Datamohan Jamatia said.<\/p>\n
A cheering Chief Minister said: “A separate high court in Tripura is a result of three decades of struggle.”<\/p>\n
A bill was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha last month, paving the way for the creation of separate high courts in the three states.<\/p>\n
Jamatia said the high courts would help in speedy disposal of cases, save litigants’ time and money, and fulfil a long-standing demand of the states.<\/p>\n
According to officials, the high courts are expected to start functioning in three months.<\/p>\n
Currently, six northeastern states — Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh — have benches of the Guwahati High Court. Sikkim has a separate high court.<\/p>\n
In Tripura, over 52,000 cases have been pending in lower courts and 5,000 cases are awaiting disposal in the Agartala bench of the Guwahati High Court, an official added.<\/p>\n
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