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SC refuses to entertain PIL seeking SIT probe into death of public servant

<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation seeking a direction to the Punjab government to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the death of a government official whose body was found on railway track near Jalandhar Cantonment station in November 2017. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said it was not inclined to entertain the plea and granted liberty to the petitioners to approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court with their grievances.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The plea, filed by three law students Deepali Vashishth, Prateek Raj and Anurag Mani, said that Rahul Bhatia was posted in the Regional Passport office at Jalandhar and on 15th November  2017, his body was found near the railway station.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' They said that Bhatia's parents, who are residing in Delhi, were informed by the police about it, but no proper investigation was carried out in the case as per rules. </span><br />

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