SHILLONG, Sept. 16 -- In order to expeditiously resolve the age-old boundary dispute between Meghalaya and Assam, the Hynniewtrep Border Dispute Redressal Forum (HBDRF) has decided to seek the intervention of the Supreme Court (SC).The forum has also given one month's time to the two autonomous district councils of Khasi and Jaintia Hills region to provide relevant documents related to the official maps of different traditional bodies, names of the villages along the inter-state border and others.

The forum, backed by the Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM), was formed at a meeting held in Jowai, the district headquarter of West Jaintia Hills District, on August 24, 2019 with an aim to resolve the long pending issue at t...