Supreme Court on Friday permitted that five reports of a panel headed by its former judge, Justice H S Bedi, which looked into the cases of 22 alleged fake encounter killings in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006, be supplied to the parties involved in the matter.
A bench of chief justice P Sathasivam and justice Gogoi asked the apex court registry to supply the reports within a week to the parties who are connected with the matter and posted the case for final hearing from 14 August.
The apex court on 2 March, 2012 had appointed its retired judge, Justice H S Bedi as the chairman of the monitoring authority looking into the cases of alleged fake encounter killings, during the four year period in Gujarat, purportedly showing a pattern that people from the minority community were targeted as terrorists.
The Court had brushed aside the allegation of the Gujarat government that it was ‘selectively’ targetted on human rights issue and the same yardstick was not applied in dealing with cases of alleged encounter killings in other states.
‘You bring human rights violations from other states. You will find we will respond with same alacrity,’ a bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam had said.
A bench of chief justice P Sathasivam and justice Gogoi asked the apex court registry to supply the reports within a week to the parties who are connected with the matter and posted the case for final hearing from 14 August.
The apex court on 2 March, 2012 had appointed its retired judge, Justice H S Bedi as the chairman of the monitoring authority looking into the cases of alleged fake encounter killings, during the four year period in Gujarat, purportedly showing a pattern that people from the minority community were targeted as terrorists.
The Court had brushed aside the allegation of the Gujarat government that it was ‘selectively’ targetted on human rights issue and the same yardstick was not applied in dealing with cases of alleged encounter killings in other states.
‘You bring human rights violations from other states. You will find we will respond with same alacrity,’ a bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam had said.