Shillong, Nov 19: The Meghalaya High Court on got another judge, with the oath taking of senior advocate, Hamarsan Sing Thangkhiew, who is also the second Khasi who have been appointed as judge of High Court, after Justice Beryl Lamare, the first Khasi who became the judge of Gauhati High Court.
Chief Justice, Mohammad Yaqoob Mir administered the oath of office and secrecy in the presence of judge, Justice, Sudip Ranjan Sen, Chief Secretary, Yeshi Tsering and other lawyers and dignitaries.
Meghalaya had a judge in the High Court during the tenure of Justice, Beryl Lamare. Justice Lamare was the judge of Gauhati High Court from November 1, 2004 to December 22, 2005.
But Thangkhiew is the first Khasi judge of the present Meghalaya High Court which was established on March 23, 2013.
Now the Meghalaya High Court has three judges including the Chief Justice after the the swearing in of Thangkhiew.
According to a press release issued by Meghalaya High Court Registrar, B. Mawrie, Thangkhiew, was born on December 24, 1966.
The 52-year old Thangkhiew did his schooling from St. Edmund’s School, and he graduated from St Edmund’s College, Shillong with honours in Economics in 1987. In 1990, he completed his L.L.B (Bachelor of Legislative Law) from Delhi University.
The release said that before his appointment as judge of the Meghalaya High Court, Thangkhiew was enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh during 1990-1991, and designated as Senior Advocate by the Gauhati High Court in 2010.
Thangkhiew has also practiced at the Gauhati High Court’s principal seat in Guwahati, and Shillong bench, presently the Meghalaya High Court.
Thangkhiew mainly practiced in areas of civil and constitutional, customary (local tribal) and company law. He has also been a member of several organizations, namely, member of the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, and member of Meghalaya State Bar Council under Section 58 of the Advocates Act, 1961, and the member of the Meghalaya State Law Commission.
