‘Incapable or Uninterested’: Supreme Court Tears Into Manipur Police Over Handling of Violence
The bench, crucially, asked if policemen had been interrogated after women said that cops had handed them over to the mob. 'What is the DGP doing?' is asked. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken a dim view of law enforcement and the government’s handling of the ethnic violence in Manipur, calling police investigation “tardy” and asking Manipur’s Director General of Police to be present in court on August 4 to be able to answer judges. LiveLaw has reported that the bench of Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra, who are hearing a bunch of petitions on the Manipur violence, including those by victims of sexual violence, was “aghast” to learn that FIRs have not been registered for nearly three months after some occurrences. The court also learned that only a few arrests had been made in the 6,000 FIRs that have been registered. “Based on the preliminary data, it does prima facie appear that the investigation has been tardy. There has been a considerable lapse between the occurrence and the registration of FIRs, recording of witness statements and even the arrests are few and far between. In order to enable the court to appreciate the entire