The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would consider listing after Holi break the plea relating to alleged fake encounters in Manipur in which CBI's Special Investigation Team (SIT) is conducting a probe.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was urged by senior advocate Colin Gonsalves that the PIL, seeking a probe into as many as 1,528 cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur, has not been listed for hearing since 2018.
"List after ensuing Holi vacation before appropriate Bench," said the bench, also comprising Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant.
The apex court had in November 2018 dismissed the pleas filed by some Manipur Police personnel seeking recusal of the then judges (Justice M B Lokur and Justice U U Lalit) of the bench hearing the case of alleged fake encounters in Manipur.
Prior to that, in July 2017, it had constituted a SIT and ordered lodging of FIRs into alleged encounter killings in the state.
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