Our Correspondent
Diphu, July 3 (EMN): Amarsing Tisso, Member of Autonomous Council (MAC) Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) on Sunday clarified that the eviction drive being carried out on 35 families illegally settled inside District Judicial Court allotted land at Baliram Terang village, 4 km Lumding road was due to a High Court order and not due to the Chief Executive Member (CEM) or the KAAC.
In a press conference held at Chief Executive Member (CEM) KAAC bungalow in Diphu, Tisso stated that ‘earlier, the judiciary was with the executive at the DC office. But in 2012-13, for the good of the people of Karbi Anglong, the judiciary was separated from the executive and the court approached the KAAC for the allotment of land for the construction of the court complex. There were 25 bighas of land at 5th mile, Baliram Terang village, allotted to Central Silk Board, which was re-allotted to District Judicial Court by KAAC in 2013’.
Tisso also said as the court could not immediately take up the construction works, some of the land mafias tried to encroach on the land. In 2014, eviction was taken up to free the land from encroachers and despite the eviction conducted, some of the families have continued to stay.
The CEM directed me to ascertain the number of encroachers and accordingly, a survey was conducted, which found 35 families as unauthorised settlers or encroachers. The CEM also told us to find how many families were landless. We found 11 genuinely landless families so the KAAC arranged 1 Katta 10 losa land to these 11 landless families at Horen Terang village. The CEM also directed to provide tin and INR one lakh for construction of their house, Tisso added.
Tisso further informed that the high court, on June 16, issued an order to conduct an eviction drive to free the land from encroachers.
No one is above the law. You cannot dictate the law, the law will dictate. Whether the encroachers are Karbis, Boros, Muslim or Hindu, eviction will be carried out as it an allotted land, Tisso added.
