What The Supreme Court Said About Manipur, From A Bench Of Former HC Judges To Digs Overseeing Sits

The court further stated that senior police personnel of DIG rank from outside Manipur shall supervise the SITs looking into the criminal matters.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the formation of a three-member judicial committee to oversee the remedial measures, compensation, and rehabilitation in relation to various incidents of ethnic violence in Manipur, to be led by former Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Gita Mittal and retired justices Asha Menon and Shalini P Joshi.

“The broad outline is to do everything in our power to restore faith in the rule of law.” We shall assemble a committee of three former HC judges. This three-judge committee will look into the inquiry, relief, corrective actions, compensation, and rehabilitation. It is a diverse committee. “It will also look at the relief camps,” stated the three-judge panel led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, according to Bar and panel.

The Supreme Court will issue its decision later today in the evening.

The panel, which included Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, also appointed a retired IPS officer, Dattatray Padsalgikar, former deputy national security advisor and ex-Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP), to oversee the CBI investigation.

The court also stated that senior police officers of DIG rank from outside Manipur will supervise and oversee Special Investigation Teams (SITs) investigating criminal cases, and that CBI teams investigating criminal cases should also include senior officials from outside the violence-torn northeastern state.

The hearing on a batch of petitions connected to ethnic violence in Manipur was resumed, with the state administration stating that the CBI will investigate all 12 FIRs relating to crimes against women.

Rajiv Singh, the Director General of Police in Manipur, was present during the hearing to answer questions on the ethnic violence and the steps taken by the administration thus far, as well as the segregation of cases for proper investigation.

Attorney General R Venkataramani and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre and the state government, respectively, filed a report on issues such as case segregation, which the Supreme Court had requested on August 1.

“The government is handling the situation at a very mature level,” the attorney general told the court.

The state administration proposed establishing SITs at the district level, led by the superintendent of police, to investigate sensitive situations. The CBI has been tasked with looking into 12 instances.

On August 1, the Supreme Court declared that Manipur’s law and order and constitutional machinery had completely collapsed.

Instead of the two FIRs pertaining to a video showing women being paraded naked by a mob, the Centre had requested the bench that the FIRs related to violence against women and children be transferred to the CBI and tried outside of Manipur.