{"id":40743,"date":"2016-01-04T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40743"},"modified":"2016-01-05T02:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T21:29:44","slug":"meghalaya-hc-closes-state-right-to-file-affidavits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/meghalaya-hc-closes-state-right-to-file-affidavits","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya HC &#8221;closes&#8221; state right to file affidavits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38404\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38404\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38404\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/health-dept-asked-to-find-impact-of-tower-radiation-meghalaya-high-court\/meghalaya-hc\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?fit=700%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,465\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"meghalaya hc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?fit=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?fit=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38404 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Meghalaya HC ''closes'' state right to file affidavits\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/meghalaya-hc.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghalaya HC &#8221;closes&#8221; state right to file affidavits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Meghalaya High Court today &#8216;closed&#8217; the right of the state government to file affidavits on the provisions of Meghalaya Lokayukta Act, 2014, that allows a non-judicial member to head it, after the chief secretary did not file a comprehensive affidavit on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have asked the Chief Secretary only to file a comprehensive affidavit which he has not done. Thus, we close the right of State to file affidavit,&#8221; a division bench headed by Chief Justice Uma Nath Singh said in its order.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said that despite a detailed order passed by this court last year (on December 17), Chief Secretary P B O Warjri has not filed affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court had directed the state government to file affidavit on the provisions of Section 3 of Meghalaya Lokayukta Act, 2014, which allows non-judicial members to be appointed as the Chairperson of the Lokayukta in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Singh also said that though the state has decided to file a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court, until there is an order of stay, the proceedings pending before this Court cannot be stalled merely on such statements.<\/p>\n<p>The next hearing on the matter will be held on January 7.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meghalaya High Court today &#8216;closed&#8217; the right of the state government to file affidavits on the provisions of Meghalaya Lokayukta Act, 2014, that allows a non-judicial member to head it, after the chief secretary did not file a comprehensive affidavit on the matter. &#8220;We have asked the Chief Secretary only to file a comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":38404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,117,80,35173,22094],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-meghalaya-hc-closes-state-right-to-file-affidavits","tag-meghalaya-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meghalaya HC &#039;&#039;closes&#039;&#039; state right to file affidavits - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Meghalaya High Court today &#039;closed&#039; the right of the state government to file affidavits on the provisions of Meghalaya Lokayukta Act, 2014, that - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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