GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 7:
On 5th June, 2025, we passed the following orders;
igation is more or less identical to the issue raised in another Public Interest Litigation, being WP(PIL) No. 01 of 2024 (Mani Kumar Subba vs. State of Sikkim and Others). That Public Interest Litigation was dismissed by a judgment and order of this Court, which was rendered on 15th May, 2025.
Now, so far as the present Public Interest Litigation is concerned - keeping the point of maintainability aside for the time being - this Court desires to ascertain from the State Government as to whether the rights of the Bhutia-Lepcha communities have been affected, in general, consequent upon the Cabinet...