New Delhi, 17 December 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana also allowed a petitioner, who challenged the continued operation of the Commission despite the SC having constituted a panel for the probe, to make the Commission a party in the proceedings. The bench, also comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, issued notice to the Commission. The CJI asked Senior Advocate A M Singhvi who appeared for the state how had the panel started an enquiry despite an earlier assurance given to the court. “What is this? Last time you gave an undertaking….but again you started an inquiry?” Singhvi said he was not representing the Commission but the state government and had conveyed the court’s directions to the Commission.

Source - The Indian Express

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