July 3, 2017 8:12 PM

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SC grants last chance to 5 states to file reply in Asaram case

Supreme Court today gave the last opportunity to five states to file replies on a plea seeking CBI probe into the mysterious death of children and attacks on ten witnesses in the Asaram Bapu rape cases. <br/><br/>A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan granted six weeks to Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh governments to file responses in the matter. <br/><br/>During the hearing, Advocate appearing for four witnesses in cases against the controversial spiritual leader, pointed out that the state governments had not filed their replies to the writ petition.<br/><br/>The apex court had on March 24 questioned the state governments' failure to provide security to the witnesses and implementation of the protection programme.<br/><br/>The petitioners have sought a SIT probe into the instances of attacks and disappearances of the witnesses in the cases against Asaram. <br/><br/>They pleaded for expeditious framing of the national witness protection guidelines.

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