Shillong, July 10: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the order of the High Court of Meghalaya to deploy central security forces to deal with illegal mining of coal and transportation.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs moved a Special Leave Petition in the apex court stating that the central forces deal with only national security and law and order duty and hence there is no provision to deploy Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) or Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) to deal with coal mining.
In the Government of India Vs State of Meghalaya case, the Centre challenged the orders of the high court delivered on March 13, 20 and April 12 of 2023 based on PIL which stressed the need of deploying CISF or CAPF.
“We have heard Mr Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India in support of the Special Leave Petition. Issue notice. Pending further orders, there shall be a stay of the operation of the impugned orders dated 13 March 2023, 20 March 2023 and 12 April 2023”, the order of the supreme court said.
