Murmu, Modi to attend Gauhati HC’s golden jubilee celebrations

Guwahati: President Droupadi Murmu will attend the Gauhati High Court’s platinum jubilee celebrations on Friday and PM Narendra Modi will attend the concluding event of the programme on April 14. The celebrations will begin on Wednesday.
President Murmu, who will be on a two-day visit to the state, will launch a mobile application “Bhoroxa”, made for the safety of women, at the event. Apart from the President and the PM, Chief Justice of India Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud will also attend the function.
Arup Jyoti Baishya, Joint Registrar (Judicial) of Gauhati HC, said, “To commemorate the occasion, a meeting has been convened on Wednesday, which will be attended by union law minister Kiren Rijiju, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Justice of Gauhati high court Sandeep Mehta and the judges of the high court.”
He said a commemorative postal stamp and the Assamese version of the book ‘Gauhati High Court: History & Heritage’ as well as a special edition of the magazine ATMA will be released on Wednesday.
On Thursday, six books on customary laws pertaining to different tribes such as Rabha, Tiwa, Zeme-Naga and Bodos of Assam will be released by Ayush minister and former Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal.
Baishya added that on the occasion of the platinum jubilee celebrations, the Gauhati High Court has decided to felicitate former judges, senior advocates who have completed 50 years of practice besides some former members of the registry, judicial officers as well as the advocates’ clerks.
The Gauhati High Court, which was established on April 5, 1948, originally catered to the seven northeast states of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
However, subsequent to the establishment of separate high courts for the states of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura, the Gauhati High Court now exercises jurisdiction over the remaining four northeastern states.