District-Level Teams Will Probe Cases: Manipur Government To Supreme Court
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Manipur violence investigation: Manipur Director General of Police Rajiv Singh was present in the hearing, as ordered by the top court, before a bench headed by Chief justice DY Chandrachud.
District-wise Special Investigation Teams will be formed to investigate the cases related to violence in strife-torn Manipur, the Centre today told the Supreme Court. Manipur Director General of Police Rajiv Singh was present in the hearing, as ordered by the top court, before a bench headed by Chief justice DY Chandrachud to answer queries on the ethnic violence and steps taken by the administration so far, besides the segregation of cases for the purposes of effective investigation.
"Without allowing any external investigation, let SITs be formed at district levels," Attorney General R Venkataramani said.
If there are more than 11 First Information Reports, or FIRs, pertaining to crime against women which are being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, they will be probed by district level SITs headed by a Superintendent of Police rank officer, who will all be women, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said.
