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AS INTRODUCED IN

Bill No. 232 of 2016

THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT BENCH AT ) BILL, 2016 By

MS. SUSHMITA DEV, M.P.

A BILL to provide for the establishment of a permanent Bench of the Gauhati High Court at Silchar.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of as follows:—

1. This Act may be called the Gauhati High Court (Establishment of a Permanent Short title. Bench at Silchar) Act, 2016. . 5 2. There shall be established a permanent Bench of the Gauhati High Court at Silchar Establishment and such judges of the Gauhati High Court, being not less than three in number, as the Chief of a Permanent Justice of that High Court may from time to time nominate, shall sit at Silchar in order to Bench of exercise the jurisdiction and power for the time being vested in that High Court in respect of Gauhati High cases arising in the districts of Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi and Dima Hasao. Court at Silchar. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The Gauhati High Court for the States of , , and is located at Gauhati. Out of the total submitted cases in Gauhati High Court, approx. forty to forty-five cases belong to the districts of , namely, Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi and Dima Hasao. The distance between these districts of Barak Valley and Gauhati is a few hundred Kilometres and the road and rail often remain interrupted during heavy monsoon due to landslides, etc. The districts of the Barak Valley have a population of approximately forty lakh. People have to travel long distance causing them immense inconvenience in order to reach the High Court at Gauhati to pursue their cases. This is a great financial strain for the residents of the valley, most of whom belong to economically weaker families. For long, there has been a demand from the persons living in the region that a Bench of the High Court be set up at Silchar in Cachar district which is very important town in the State of Assam. The Silchar town is developing as a center of trade and business. It has hundreds of tea gardens and the presence of Central Public Sector Undertakings like the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited and the Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited. Therefore, establishment of a permanent Bench at Silchar in Cachar district will help mitigate the problems of the persons residing in the Barak Valley region. Hence this Bill.

NEW DELHI; SUSHMITA DEV July 25, 2016.

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A BILL to provide for the establishment of a permanent Bench of the Gauhati High Court at Silchar.

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(Ms. Sushmita Dev, M.P.) GMGIPMRND—2576L(S3)—04-10-2016.