The Hindu : SC admits petition against Bodo accord

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Friday, Apr 18, 2003

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SC admits petition against Bodo accord

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI April 17. The Supreme Court today admitted a petition filed by the Bodoland Autonomous Council challenging the Memorandum of Settlement between the Centre, the Assam Government and the Bodo Liberation Tigers for the creation of Bodo Territorial Council (BTC).

A Bench, comprising Justice Shivaraj V. Patil and Justice Arijit Pasayat, also issued notice to the respondents on the plea for stay on the implementation of the Bodo agreement signed between the three parties on February 10.

The BAC submitted that the accord was signed hurriedly without taking into account the popular feeling among the Bodo community and that it ran counter to the original Bodo accord of 1993, under which the BAC was constituted. It also said the Memorandum of Settlement provided for repeal of the BAC Act, 1993 and creation of an autonomous self-governing body.

The council contended that the Centre and the State Government had entered into an agreement with a small terrorist group of a few Bodos who had surrendered and had no representative character among the people of Bodoland.

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