Two chargesheets filed, 14 charged in Manipur fake encounters, CBI director tells SC

Mangalore Today News Network

Manipur, Jul 30, 2018 : Two chargesheets have been filed in connection with the fake encounters in Manipur and 14 people have been charged, CBI director Alok Kumar Verma told Supreme Court on Monday.

 

A bench of justices MB Lokur and UU Lalit had summoned Verma to appear before it on Monday after the agency failed to file final reports in seven cases of extra judicial killings.

Verma said the 14 were charged for alleged murder, criminal conspiracy, and destruction of evidence.

He said two chargesheets have been filed in the fake encounters allegedly by Army, Assam Rifles and state police and five more would be filed by Tuesday.

The court then asked Verma to list out the problems the probe agency was facing. “You can sit together with your officers and discuss. You are dealing with peoples’ lives,” the judges said, according to news agency ANI.

“We would like to know from the director what should be done to expedite the investigation and filing of chargesheets,” the bench had earlier said.

The court then left it to the CBI and Special Investigation Team to decide whether those chargesheeted for murder need to be arrested.

The CBI director told the court that probe in 20 more fake encounter cases in Manipur will be completed by December end.


courtesy:HT