National Human Rights Commission vs State of Gujarat

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2009 Supreme(SC) 901

ARIJIT PASAYAT, P.SATHASIVAM, AFTAB ALAM
National Human Rights Commission – Appellant
Versus
State of Gujarat – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant :Harish N. Salve, Sr. Adv., (A.C.), Ms. Meenakshi Grover, B.V. Desai (A.C.), Rahul Gupta, Ms. Reema Sharma, Sanjay Parekh, Ms. Shilpa Gupta, Gopal, Umed Singh Gulia-in-person, Amit Singh Chauhan, Ejaz Maqbool, Huzefa Ahmadi, Ms. Aparna Bhat, Anand Grover, Ms. Lalit Mohini, Naveen R. Nath, Ms. Shobha, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Gopal Subramaniam, ASG, Manjit Singh, AAG, Arun Jaitley, Mukul Rohtagi, R. Dash, Rajiv Kumar Dubey, M.S Ganesh, Ms. H. Wahi, Saurav Kirpal, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Jesal, R. Basant, D.D. Kamth, K.N. Madhusoodhan, R. Satish, Dr. Natis A. Siddiqui, Anil Shrivastav, Ritu Raj, Syidmajookbakki, A. Mariarputham, Mrs. Aruna Mathur (forM/s. Arputham, Aruna & Co.), Ms. Anita Shenoy, s. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Ms. Bina Madhavan, Tarun Satija (for M/s. Lawyer’s Knit & Co.), Manish Kumar, Ansar Ahmad Chaudhary, Manoj Dwivedi, G. Venkateshwar, Anil Shrivastav, Ritu Raj, V.S. Pragasam, S.J. Aristotle, Prabu Rama Subramanian, Esward Belho, Rituraj Biswas, P. Athuimei R. Naga, Manjit Singh, T.V. George, K.H. Nobin Singh, Ms. Varuna Bhandari Gugnani, Rajesh Singh, S. Wsim A. Qadri, Ms. Anil Katiyar, D.s. Mahra, Ms. Aparna Bhat, K. Sheshchary, Ms. Madhulika Mohta, Atul Jha, D.K. Sinha, Ajay Pal, Gopal Singh, Ms. Shweta Singh, Manish Kumar, Ms. Sangita Singh, Anand Grover, Ms. Lalit Mohini Bhat, Naveen R. Nath, C.D. Singh, Riku Sarma (for M/s. Corporate Law Group), Tara Chandra Sharma, Ms. Neelam Sharma, K.R. Sasiprabhu, Ms. A. Subhashini, J.S. Attri, Bimal Roy Jad, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Radha Shyam Jena, P.V. Dinesh, Gopal Prasad, Gautam Godara, R.K. Adsure, Ranjan Mukherjee, Amit Kr. Chawla, Sanjay R. Hegde, P. Parmeswaran, AND. Rao, Sameer Pareskh & Co., S.N. Bhat, Advocates.

JUDGMENT

Dr. Arijit Pasayat, J.—

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:

1: Godhra Railway Police Station Cr. No 09/02

Applications received 63

Witnesses examined 183(125 old & 61 new)

Number arrested —

Charge sheets filed –

Stage of investigation Completed

2: Khambholaj Police Station Cr. No 23/02

Applications received 17

Witnesses examined 85(30 old & 55 new)

Number arrested Court is requested to issue process against 16 accused

Charge sheets filed Amended separate cha

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2009 Supreme(SC) 901

ARIJIT PASAYAT, P.SATHASIVAM, AFTAB ALAMNational Human Rights Commission – AppellantVersusState of Gujarat – Respondent

Cases Referred (6)

ARIJIT PASAYAT, P.SATHASIVAM, AFTAB ALAM
National Human Rights Commission – Appellant
Versus
State of Gujarat – Respondent