NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY order dated 26. 3. 2008 in this group of cases this Court had directed the Gujarat Government to constitute a five members Special investigation Team (in short the 'sit') to be headed by Mr. R. K. Raghavan, former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation to undertake inquiry/investigation including further investigation in nine cases. It was further directed that the SIT shall submit its report within a particular time. The State Government issued a Notification dated 1. 4. 2008 constituting the sit. On 11. 2. 2009 the SIT has submitted its consolidated report. It has indicated therein that since its constitution the SIT has made considerable progress in respect of each of the nine cases and the current status is as follows: <FRM>JUDGEMENT_622_TLPRE0_2009Html1.htm</FRM>

(2.) IN separate sealed covers the IO's report in each case accompanied by the Supervising IGP and the Chairman's comments were submitted. The other members of the team are Shri C. B. Satpathy, Smt. Geetha Johri, Shri shivanand Jha and Shri Ashish Bhatia. The last three are officers of the indian Police Service from the Gujarat cadre.

(3.) A few important aspects concerning the cases need to be noted.