A Supreme Court – appointed committee probing six cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur informed the court today that these were not genuine encounters. A bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai perused the committee's report which said none of the six cases qualify as encounters and they are fake. The panel, comprising former Supreme Court judge Santosh Hegde, ex-CEC J M Lyngdoh and a senior police officer said in its report that the victims, including a 12-year-old boy, did not have any criminal records.
The apex court had on January 4 decided to appoint the committee to hold an inquiry into the alleged fake encounter killings in Manipur. The bench said that appropriate directions will be passed on the basis of the panel's report on April 9.