New Delhi: The long-drawn extra-judicial killings in Manipur from 2000 to 2012 will come up for hearing in Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Earlier, the apex court asked the Centre to file a report giving the status of the investigation conducted so far by the SIT into alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur from 2000 to 2012. The top court, which was hearing a PIL seeking a probe into 1,528 cases of extra-judicial killings in Manipur, on July 14, 2017, had constituted an SIT and ordered the lodging of the FIRs and probe into such killings in the state.
A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices J K Maheshwari and Hima Kohli issued the direction on the petition filed by ‘Extra Judicial Execution Victim and The Human Rights Alert’. The hearings are on account of a public interest litigation, or PIL, by the Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association, Manipur, and the Imphal-based Human Rights Alert (HRA), a watchdog.
Two Imphal-based organisations said that they have compiled a report on 1,528 alleged extra-judicial executions carried out by the security forces in the state. Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, appearing for the petitioner, said out of 655 cases, which were to be probed by the SIT, 39 cases only have been probed so far and inquiries in the remaining cases have been abandoned. Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, opposed the submissions.
A two-judge bench of the apex court in 2018 pulled up CBI for delays in investigating extrajudicial killings in Manipur and in the filing of charges. The allegations were against the Indian Army, its adjunct Assam Rifles, several central paramilitary forces, and the Manipur Police.
