The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a plea by a group of lawyers seeking direction to the central government to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the attack on Arunachal student Nido Tania and the assault on two Manipuri women in the capital recently.
The apex court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed the listing of the matter for Friday as the petitioner advocates mentioned their plea for an early hearing.
The petitioners have sought that the SIT should be headed by a retired apex court judge, have an officer from the northeast, carry out an investigation in a time-bound manner and submit the status report to the court.
Besides identifying and booking the attackers of Tania and the two Manipuri women, the plea said the SIT should proceed against police officers who did not register the complaint and take action in the incident leading to the death of Tania.
The plea has also sought direction to the centre and the state governments to inform the court about the steps taken by them to curb racial atrocities/discrimination in society.
The lawyers who moved the court include Karma Dorjee, Gainilung Panmei, Pragya Baghel, Sarvesh Singh Baghel, Rahul Pratap, Vaibhav Tomar and Anirudh Singh.
The plea said framers of the Constitution envisaged a nation where there was no discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth but these rights are being blatantly violated.
The apex court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed the listing of the matter for Friday as the petitioner advocates mentioned their plea for an early hearing.
The petitioners have sought that the SIT should be headed by a retired apex court judge, have an officer from the northeast, carry out an investigation in a time-bound manner and submit the status report to the court.
Besides identifying and booking the attackers of Tania and the two Manipuri women, the plea said the SIT should proceed against police officers who did not register the complaint and take action in the incident leading to the death of Tania.
The plea has also sought direction to the centre and the state governments to inform the court about the steps taken by them to curb racial atrocities/discrimination in society.
The lawyers who moved the court include Karma Dorjee, Gainilung Panmei, Pragya Baghel, Sarvesh Singh Baghel, Rahul Pratap, Vaibhav Tomar and Anirudh Singh.
The plea said framers of the Constitution envisaged a nation where there was no discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth but these rights are being blatantly violated.