Champion case

By Our Reporter

SHILLONG, APR 24: The Meghalaya High Court on Monday granted ten days time to the jailed chairman of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) Champion R Sangma to file an affidavit-in-opposition.

In its order issued here, the High Court said, “Having regard to the submissions made and the peculiar circumstances of the case, ten days’ time is granted for filing affidavit-in-opposition.”

This was after Sangma’s counsel Sujit Dey sought for an opportunity to file an affidavit-in-opposition in this case particularly in relation to the factual aspects which the respondent seeks to dispute.

The former deputy superintendent of police-turned-rogue, who co-founded the outlawed Garo tribal militant outfit in the fall of 2010, was pushed over to India by Bangladesh authorities in July 2012 before he was arrested at the Indo-Bangladesh border.

The GNLA which is in operation in at least five Garo Hills districts in Meghalaya with a self-styled  C-in-C Sohan D Shira leading the organisation from a hideout even as over 150 cadres of the outfit has surrendered till last year.