Manipur Violence: Supreme Court Hearing- LIVE UPDATES

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31 July 2023 11:16 AM IST

  • Manipur Violence: Supreme Court Hearing- LIVE UPDATES

    The Supreme Court to hear the batch of petitions concerning ethnic clashes in the State of Manipur. The matter was taken up by a bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj MisraThe batch of petitions include a petition filed by the Manipur Tribal Forum Delhi seeking the protection of the Kuki tribe by the Indian Army and a petition filed by Chairman of the...

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    • 31 July 2023 3:35 PM IST


    • 31 July 2023 3:20 PM IST

      Jaising: Your lordships should name the committee truth and reconciliation committee. Please consider this suggestion.

    • 31 July 2023 3:17 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: We will take this up at 2 pm tomorrow.

    • 31 July 2023 3:13 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: There will be victims who are Meiteis also. Obviously there will be violence on both sides...it's an issue of communal strife.

    • 31 July 2023 3:12 PM IST

      Gupta: At some stage, we need to see underlying issues which is causing violence. Mr Gonsalves application deals with it, ours also deals with that. Violence will only stop when your lordships addresses it at some stage. But that comes second to this.

    • 31 July 2023 3:11 PM IST

      Gupta: I appear for global Meitei foundation. I am not addressing your lordships on issue you're focusing on now.

      CJI: Mr Gupta, rest assured that violence perpetuated against any community will be dealt with even-handedly.

    • 31 July 2023 3:10 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: Our idea is ultimately that we restore the faith of the community - in constitutional process. That's the message we need to send.

    • 31 July 2023 3:09 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: Our idea is ultimately that we restore the faith of the community - in constitutional process. That's the message we need to send.

    • 31 July 2023 3:07 PM IST

      CJI: We need to know bifurcation of 6000 FIRs, how many zero FIRs, how many forwarded to jurisdictional magistrate, action taken, how many in judicial custody, how many involving sexual violence, position of legal aid, how many 164 statements recorded so far.

    • 31 July 2023 3:05 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: The extent of our intervention would also depend on what the government has done so far. If we're satisfied with what the government has done, we may not even intervene.

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