He said Tripura has been demanding a full-fledged high court, but the centre has been ignoring the demand, despite submitting an affidavit before the Agartala bench of the Guwahati High Court in 1995 that it intended to set up a full-fledged high court in Tripura.

'With only seven pending cases, Sikkim has got a separate high court. While separate high courts were set up in newly formed states like Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh, even after 37 years of attaining statehood, Tripura is deprived of a separate high court,' Lodh added.

A team of lawmakers and lawyers from Tripura had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj in August 2008 to demand a high court for the state.