Supreme Court to hear plea of Chhattisgarh government against the refusal for examining of additional witnesses by the Judicial Commission set up to probe the 2013 #JheeramGhati naxal attack in which in which 29 people, including leaders of state INC, were killed.
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Senior Adv Abhishek Manu Singhvi:
incident took place in May 2013 after which a special judicial commission was constituted. Till then 67 witnesses were examined. A new government was formed in Dec 2018.
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Singhvi: Additional term of reference were given but for seven months nothing was done and no additional witnesses were examined. In October last year two witnesses were examined but did not examine the six witnesses which were sought by officer in-charge or state
Singhvi: Director of Jungle warfare was not examined.
Justice Ashok Bhushan: But commission has said in September that it will not examine any new witnesses after Oct 1, 2019
Singhvi: state has filed an affidavit on Sept 30
SC: but you are saying is not in the order
Singhvi: Commission is not allowing witnesses to file an affidavit. Cana commission do this?
SC: commission said those who wanted to be examined will file an affidavit but no one did
Singhvi:This is such an important incident why cannot they examine five witnesses. This is not something cast on stone.
SC: Commission said those who want to be examined shall file their affidavit but no one filed. How can they be examined now
Singhvi: state filed the affidavit
SC: That was not the order of commission but it said that those who want to be examined shall file their affidavits
Singhvi concedes.
Singhvi: court is right that state filed but witnesses did not filed the affidavit
SC: you wanted the expert witness to be examined but commission did not agreed. You may have extended commissions tenure but it has closed the proceedings
Appeal dismissed.
Jheeram Ghati Naxal Attack case: Supreme Court dismisses Chattisgarh government plea seeking examination of additional witnesses [Read full story] #SupremeCourt
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