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SC says it will supervise panel probing police action at CJP protest
The Supreme Court on Monday assured petitioners that the high-powered committee investigating alleged police excesses during the Cockroach Janata Party protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar will work under the court's supervision. A…
The Supreme Court on Monday assured petitioners that the high-powered committee investigating alleged police excesses during the Cockroach Janata Party protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar will work under the court's supervision. A bench led by Chief Justice Sanyukt said petitioners' apprehensions about the panel's composition were misplaced.
Concerns were raised over the committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Subhash Reddy and including former Delhi High Court judge Justice Shailender Kaur. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan had earlier criticised the panel publicly. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta strongly opposed the reconstitution plea, calling it "very mysterious".
The court agreed to list the application along with the main matter for future hearing. The panel was formed last week to examine allegations of excessive force by police during the protests at Jantar Mantar.
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The high-powered committee is the Supreme Court's own investigative mechanism, a step it has taken in other police-excess cases such as the 2017 Bhima Koregaon violence and the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri killings. The petitioners' objection to Justice Shailender Kaur stems from her 2020 denial of bail to student activist Umar Khalid, a decision still pending review before the Supreme Court itself. The key watch item is whether the court's supervision will extend to selecting which witnesses depose and whether the committee's final report is made public. The application for reconstitution is now tagged to the main matter, meaning the court will hear the substance only after arguments on the panel's composition are settled.
Source: timesnownews.com
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