The Manipur High Court has reserved its order on the All Manipur Tribal Union’s (AMTU) application seeking a leave to file a third party appeal against its March 27 order on recommending Scheduled Tribe status to the State’s dominant Meitei community.
A Division Bench of Justices Ahanthem Bimol Singh and A Guneshwar Sharma this week concluded the hearing in the application filed by the AMTU, which sought a leave to appeal the controversial order that is said to be the immediate trigger for the five-month-long conflict underway in the State between the dominant valley-based Meitei community and the hills-based Kuki-Zomi people, who come under ST category.
The March 27 judgement was on a PIL filed by a Meitei body seeking directions that their pleas for ST status be acted upon. A Bench of Acting Chief Justice M V Muralidharan had ordered the State government to consider the representation and directed them to write to the Union government within four weeks.
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