NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked two of its retired judges-Justice J M Panchal and Justice Ok S P Radhakrishnan - to examine 241 anti-Sikh riots instances and record a file whether or not they had been rightly closed through a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to make sure that no accused were given off scot-free.
A three-member SIT, headed through IPS officer Pramod Asthana, was constituted through the Centre in February, 2015 and was given the task to reopen all 1984 riots instances which were closed through the Delhi Police for loss of sufficient proof. The SIT, after inspecting all available material, recommended closure of 241-odd instances and it's nonetheless inspecting 9 instances. But a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar determined to get the instances re-examined through its retired judges.
The court docket appointed the "supervisory body " of its former judges to head via all the documents and the closure stories filed through SIT and record a file inside three months on whether or not there was any prosecutable proof in the ones instances.
"We constitute a supervisory body of two former judges of this court, namely, Justice J M Panchal and Justice K S P Radhakrishnan, who shall scrutinise the matters which have been closed and express the view whether there was justification to close the cases. The supervisory body is requested to file a report within three months. The said supervisory body shall be given requisite assistance, which the Centre shall provide. The supervisory body shall start functioning from September 5, 2017," the court docket stated.
The court docket was listening to a petition filed through S Gurlad Singh Kahlon, a member of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, looking for its course for an unbiased probe in all anti-Sikh riots instances in Delhi alleging that loose and honest investigation was no longer finished through police.
A three-member SIT, headed through IPS officer Pramod Asthana, was constituted through the Centre in February, 2015 and was given the task to reopen all 1984 riots instances which were closed through the Delhi Police for loss of sufficient proof. The SIT, after inspecting all available material, recommended closure of 241-odd instances and it's nonetheless inspecting 9 instances. But a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar determined to get the instances re-examined through its retired judges.
The court docket appointed the "supervisory body " of its former judges to head via all the documents and the closure stories filed through SIT and record a file inside three months on whether or not there was any prosecutable proof in the ones instances.
"We constitute a supervisory body of two former judges of this court, namely, Justice J M Panchal and Justice K S P Radhakrishnan, who shall scrutinise the matters which have been closed and express the view whether there was justification to close the cases. The supervisory body is requested to file a report within three months. The said supervisory body shall be given requisite assistance, which the Centre shall provide. The supervisory body shall start functioning from September 5, 2017," the court docket stated.
The court docket was listening to a petition filed through S Gurlad Singh Kahlon, a member of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, looking for its course for an unbiased probe in all anti-Sikh riots instances in Delhi alleging that loose and honest investigation was no longer finished through police.
1984 riots: 2 retired SC judges to look into 241 cases
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