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Ex-judge could head shoot-out probe panel, says apex court
Monday February 27, 2012 10:40:57 PM,
IANS
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Gujarat appointee for shootout probe monitoring rejected
The Supreme court Friday refused to accept the Gujarat
government's appointee to head the monitoring authority which
would have overseen a probe into 22 alleged staged shootouts that
took place in the state between 2002
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New Delhi: After
rejecting the Gujarat government's appointee to monitor the probe
into 22 alleged staged shoot-out cases, the Supreme Court Monday
suggested the name of a former apex court judge to head the
committee.
However, a bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash
Desai adjourned the matter till Friday after Gujarat's Additional
Advocate General Tushar Mehta sought time to get instruction from
the state government.
As court adjourned the hearing, it asked media not to make public
the name of the judge suggested by it to head the committee as it
might be embarrassing to him.
"This is not part of the order. Don't mention his name. Don't
embarrass the judge," the court told media persons present in the
court room.
The need for the new chairman of the monitoring committee arose
after former apex court Justice M.B. Shah declined the Gujarat
government's offer to head it.
The apex court Feb 24 shot down the Gujarat government's decision
to appoint Justice (retd.) K.R. Vyas to head the monitoring
authority after Justice Shah's refusal.
As Mehta sought to point out that the entire mechanism of the
monitoring committee headed by Justice Shah was that of the state
government, the court said it had agreed to the monitoring
committee mechanism because one of its former judges was to head
it.
Having said so, the court made it clear that it would not let the
state government to disturb the essential structure of the
monitoring mechanism that will be headed by the retired judge of
the apex court.
As court adjourned the hearing, it told Mehta that he had been
told what the court had in its mind, thereby indicating that state
had to act within it. "What we had in our mind we have told you,"
the court told him.
The court's remark came while hearing the petitions by well-known
columnist B.G. Verghese and noted poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar
who sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the
cases of alleged staged shoot-outs in Gujarat, in which 22 people
were killed between 2002 to 2006.
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