New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday proposed to designate a committee of three former High Court judges to look into the investigation, rehabilitation and other issues about violence hit Manipur.
The court said that the ambit of the committee will not be limited to looking into probing ethnic violence incidences.
Justice Gita Mittal (former Chief justice of J&K HC), Justice Shalini Joshi (former judge of Bombay High Court), and Justice Asha Menon (Former Judge of Delhi High Court) will be part of the committee, the apex court informed.
The court has also appointed former IPS officer Dattatray Padsalgikar to oversee the CBI investigation. The court directed that there should be at least five officers of at least the rank of DySP in the CBI from various states.
The court informed that there would be 42 SITs looking at the cases which were not transferred to CBI. All these SITs would be supervised by DIG-ranked officers from outside Manipur.
Manipur Director General of Police Rajiv Singh was present in the court during the hearing to answer queries before a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud.
Representing the government, Attorney General R Venkataraman said before the court that without allowing any external investigation, let SITs to be formed at district levels.
Also Read: Delhi EV policy ends today, Kejriwal govt to extend the policy?
