The Centre on Tuesday proposed before the Supreme Court setting up of a boundary commission to amicably settle the boundary dispute of Assam with Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
Attorney General Soli J Sorabjee submitted before a bench comprising Chief Justice A S Anand, Justice R C Lahoti and Justice Shivaraj V Patil that such a commission should be set up after the chief ministers settle its terms and reference and the composition.

Sorabjee said that it should preferably be a one-man commission and its finding should be held to be final and binding as without this the itigation would continue in the Apex Court with parties raising objections against the award of the commission.
It should be settled at the commission level, Sorabjee said and added the court should not get involved in it as these days a trend has emerged where the party unsatisfied with the court orders start agitating on the street.

Assam has approached the court contending that there has been attempts on the part of Nagaland government to usurp its territory while the latter has claimed control over these territories traditionally.
The Assam government, represented by senior advocate K K Venugopal and advocate Vijay Hansaria, sought four weeks' time from the court to respond to the suggestion given by the attorney general.

The bench allowed the time sought by the state government and directed listing of the matter after five weeks. Bureau Report