JUDGMENT

Gita Mittal, Acting Chief Justice The writ petitioner, a practicing Advocate of this court, has filed the present writ petition submitting that the same is in public interest. By way of the petition, he seeks the following reliefs:

"(a) To constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is responsible to report only to this Hon'ble Court.

(b) To issue a writ of Mandamus or any other writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the Special Investigation Team constituted by this Hon'ble Court, to investigate into all the aspects of the hostage crisis which hostages have now been declared to have been killed by ISIS and

(c) To issue a writ of Mandamus or any other writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the Respondents to provide all the information required including documents/communication etc. and make the same available to the Special Investigation Team

(d) To issue a writ of Mandamus or any other writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by this Hon'ble Court to file monthly reports before this Hon'ble Court."

2. So far as the basis of the writ petition is concerned, it is claimed by the petitioner that "he has done the