Manipur Violence: Supreme Court Hearing- LIVE UPDATES

LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK

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...

    Live Updates

    • 31 July 2023 2:54 PM IST

      SG Mehta: There will be atleast one woman officer who will report back to you. I'm requesting this should be moved out of the state of Manipur

    • 31 July 2023 2:54 PM IST


      CJI DY Chandrachud: Suppose there are 1000 such cases- then is the CBI in position to conduct investigation in all these incidents? Because they're all connected.




    • 31 July 2023 2:53 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: But we want to know how many zero FIRs, what was the action taken, are there any 156 proceedings, to what extent has been legal aid provided? The other thing- is this the only standalone incident of violence on women? Or how many such FIRs are there?

    • 31 July 2023 2:51 PM IST

      CJI: Out of these, how many were recorded as zero FIRs?

      SG: don't have instructions but whenever the police gets information, and territorial jurisdiction is not clarified, it is registered at zero FIRs.

      CJI DY Chandrachud: Right.

    • 31 July 2023 2:50 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: You say there are 6000 FIRs- How many of them involve crime against women? How many involve offences like murder, arson etc? What is the bifurcation between these 6000 FIRs?

    • 31 July 2023 2:49 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: Why was it given to magistrate after 1 month and 3 days. There were 20 such FIRs, what did the police do?

    • 31 July 2023 2:48 PM IST

      SG Mehta: My instructions are subject to the verification.

      CJI DY Chandrachud: Who was named in the FIR? Nobody was named. In which case what was the police doing for 14 days?

    • 31 July 2023 2:48 PM IST

      CJI DY Chandrachud: But Mr SG, 14 days the police took to register the zero FIR.

    • 31 July 2023 2:48 PM IST

      SG Mehta: We have nothing to hide. We're saying that your lordships can monitor the situation. Something coming from here or there will be hazardous.

    • 31 July 2023 2:47 PM IST

      CJI: What was the police doing from 4th to 18th? An incident came to light that women are being paraded naked- atleast 2 were raped. What was the police doing?

    Next Story