JUDGMENT :

Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, J.

By medium of this appeal, judgment dated 10.12.2018 passed in WP (C) No.448 of 2018 captioned "Shri Amon Rana v. State of Meghalaya & ors, has been assailed on numerous grounds as enumerated in para-8 of the memo of appeal.

2. It was brought to the notice of the Court that in view of the observations made and directions passed in the judgment impugned regarding matters which were not issues in the writ petition, SLP has been filed before the Hon’ble Apex Court with the following prayer:-

"(a) Issue appropriate writ/direction directing the Hon’ble Chief Justice, Meghalaya High Court, Shillong to withdraw all judicial works from Hon’ble Justice S.R. Sen forthwith;

(b) Pass ad interim ex-parte relief in terms of prayer (a);

(c) Pass such other of further orders as to this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case."

3. Pendency of SLP with aforesaid prayer in our humble opinion will not operate as a bar for deciding the instant appeal as is also submitted by learned counsel for the parties, more so Hon’ble Judge ag