'Would your Lordships give me time till Monday? I have almost got it done. We are working something out, senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the UP government, told the bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana
Eight people, including 4 farmers, were killed on October 3. File pic
The Supreme Court Friday granted time till November 15 to the Uttar Pradesh government for apprising its stand on the suggestion that a former judge of a “different high court” should monitor the state SIT probe on day-to-day basis in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Eight people, including four farmers, were killed on October 3.
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“Would your Lordships give me time till Monday? I have almost got it done. We are working something out,” senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the UP government, told the bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana.
“List on Monday,” said the bench. The SC, on November 8, had expressed dissatisfaction over the probe and suggested that to infuse “independence, impartiality and fairness” in the ongoing investigation, a former judge of a “different high court” should monitor it on day-to-day basis.
The bench had also said that it has no confidence and does not want the one-member judicial commission appointed by the state to continue probe into the case.
Meanwhile, a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar on Friday said it would hear on November 22 a plea, which has sought a direction to the Centre to examine various international laws and take appropriate “effective and stringent” steps to control hate speech and rumour-mongering in the country.
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