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Justice Bedi to monitor Gujarat 'encounters'
probe
Friday March 02, 2012 07:56:05 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Friday appointed Justice H.S. Bedi to head a
monitoring committee to supervise investigations into 22 cases of
alleged fake encounters in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006.
Justice Bedi is a retired judge of the Supreme Court.
The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana
Prakash Desai appointed Justice Bedi after rejecting the Gujarat
government's plea for more time to persuade Justice M.B. Shah to
reconsider his decision to step down as chairman of the monitoring
authority. Justice Shah is also a former judge of the Supreme
Court.
Appointing Justice Bedi as the head of the monitoring authority,
the apex court said: "As far as the supervision and monitoring of
the cases mentioned in two writ petitions is concerned, we would
like it to be done by someone whose neutrality is completely
beyond any question."
Asking the Gujarat government to extend full facilities and
cooperation to Justice Bedi, the court requested him to submit an
interim report to the apex court in three months.
The court order appointing Justice Bedi as the chairman of the
monitoring committee came in the wake of the hearing of a petition
by well-known columnist B.G.Verghese and noted poet, lyricist and
Bollywood film script writer Javed Akhtar seeking CBI
investigation into the cases of fake encounters in Gujarat, in
which 22 people were killed between 2002 and 2006.
The court said: "We do not think it would be proper to burden him
(Justice Shah) with an assignment which he is not interested in
shouldering."
The court said this when Gujarat's Additional Advocate General
Tushar Mehta said he along with the Advocate General of the state
had met Justice Shah and were in the process of persuading him to
recall his letter to the apex court relinquishing his appointment
as the head of the monitoring committee.
The apex court by its Jan 25 order stamped the Gujarat government
decision to set up a monitoring authority headed by Justice Shah
to supervise the investigations into 22 cases of staged shootouts.
The court said it had nothing to say on the Gujarat government's
decision to appoint Justice (retd.) K.R. Vyas to head the
monitoring authority after Justice M.B. Shah (former judge of the
apex court) declined the state government's offer of the post.
The court said it was not proper for the State government to
appoint Justice (retd) Vyas to head the monitoring committee just
a day before the matter was to be heard by the apex court.
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