{"id":31845,"date":"2014-01-21T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31845"},"modified":"2014-01-21T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:47:03","slug":"decide-sangmas-tribal-status-says-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/decide-sangmas-tribal-status-says-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Decide Sangma&#8217;s tribal status, says Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/all-educational-institutions-under-rte-supreme-court\/supreme-court-206\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19428\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19428\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/all-educational-institutions-under-rte-supreme-court\/supreme-court-206\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.jpg?fit=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19428 alignright\" alt=\"supreme court\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3-150x99.jpg?resize=150%2C99&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.jpg?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Monday directed the National Commission on Scheduled Tribes to decide the tribal status of Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma within eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench comprising Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice MY Eqbal directed the Commission to give its verdict within the stipulated time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Supreme court disposed of two petitions challenging the tribal status of the chief minister,&#8221; Supreme Court advocate Ranjan Mukherjee said on phone from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Mukherjee said the court did not give any opinion on the two petitions, but left the matter to the Commission to take a decision on the representation of the petitioner&#8217;s within eight weeks from Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The two petitions include a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Tennydard. 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Marak, rejected last year by the Meghalaya High Court, and a writ petition filed by the All North East Indigenous Garo Law Promoters Association.<\/p>\n<p>Marak filed the PIL alleging that Sangma had fraudulently obtained the Scheduled Tribe certificate by &#8220;misrepresentation and suppressing the material facts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span>The All North East Indigenous Garo Law Promoter Association had alleged that Sangma does not belong to the Sangma clan and that he used his surname only to obtain a Scheduled Tribe certificate.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct 7, the Meghalaya High Court dismissed as &#8220;non-maintainable&#8221; a PIL challenging the scheduled tribe status of Manda Sangma.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, certain groups and individuals had raised the issue because the chief minister&#8217;s late mother Roshanara Begum was a non-Garo.\u00a0The Manda clan, to which Sangma belongs, has come out in Sangma&#8217;s defence.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Monday directed the National Commission on Scheduled Tribes to decide the tribal status of Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma within eight weeks. 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