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Manipur Horror Video: Supreme Court proposes committee to examine sexual incidents against women
The Court did not pass any order. Instead it sought details of action taken by the State authorities until now including the details about the 6,000 FIRs claimed to have been registered. Read further on Dynamite News:
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday contemplated formation of a committee of retired woman judges to probe incidents of sexual violence against women in Manipur.
A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra stated the same after two Kuki-Zomi women from Manipur who were seen paraded naked by men in a video approached the apex court seeking a probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into the incident.
"We need objective assistance. One thing we can do is to have a committee of woman judges and domain experts or to have a committee of woman and male judges. If we are not satisfied with what has been done so far that will define the extent of our intervention," the Court said.
CJI said merely entrusting to CBI, SIT would not be enough. We have to ensure that the process of justice goes to her doorstep. We are running out of time, three months have gone.
On the formation of a committee, CJI said there are two ways- we constitute a committee ourselves- a party of women and male judges and domain experts. This is not in terms of just trying to figure out what has happened but we also need to rebuild lives.
CJI states the extent of Supreme Court intervention would also depend on what the government has done so far. If we are satisfied with what the government has done, we may not even intervene.
The Court, however, did not pass any order. Instead it sought details of action taken by the State authorities up until now including the details about the 6,000 first information reports (FIRs) claimed to have been registered.
"We need bifurcation of 6,000 FIR how many zero FIR, how many arrests, how many in judicial custody, how many under 156(3), how many section 164 statements recorded and how legal aid is being dispensed with," the Court stated.
We can have the answers from the State tomorrow and take it up tomorrow, the bench said. (with Agency inputs)