SC seeks former judge’s reply

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Wednesday asked justice HS Bedi, former judge of the apex court, to inform it if the final report on the fake encounters in Gujarat was prepared in consultation with other members of the monitoring committee that had supervised the investigations in the cases.

This order comes on an objection raised by the Gujarat government that the final report — by justice Bedi on fake encounter in

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We request justice Bedi to inform the court as to whether the final report...was shared with other members of the monitoring authority

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the state — was unilateral and in contradiction with its earlier reports, where views of other members of the monitoring authority were taken.

“We request justice Bedi to inform the court as to whether the final report submitted on 26.2.2018 was shared with other members of the monitoring authority and if justice Bedi — as the chairman of the monitoring authority appointed by this court by its previous orders — considered it necessary to take the views of the other members of the monitoring authority and if the 11th (final) report has been submitted unilaterally by the learned judge,” said a bench of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice SK Kaul and Justice KM Joseph ordered.