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The bench consisted of Justices A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala. The SC also imposed an exemplary cost of Rs five lakh on petitioner and social activist Himanshu Kumar.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a 2009 plea seeking an independent investigation into alleged incidents of extra-judicial executions of tribals in Chhattisgarh by security forces during anti-Naxal operations.
The bench consisted of Justices A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala. The SC also imposed an exemplary cost of Rs five lakh on petitioner and social activist Himanshu Kumar.
The court also rejected allegations of extra judicial killings made against CRPF in Chhattisgarh in 2009 and said, “The State of Chattisgarh can take action against relevant people for destruction of evidence, false statements, criminal conspiracy or any other offence.
The PIL filed by Kumar was based on testimony recorded by him in 2009 into deaths of 17 villagers in three different incidents in Dantewada district.
The PIL dates back to 2009 when Himanshu Kumar moved the top court detailing how, between September 2009 to October 2009, security force personnel had not only committed extra-judicial killings but also raped and looted tribal people of Chhattisgarh.
Kumar also claimed that family members of the deceased and other eyewitnesses had seen the security forces attack the tribals with bayonets, shoot them at close range, and mutilate the bodies.
In April this year, Centre too moved the Supreme Court to initiate perjury proceedings against the activist and 12 Chhattisgarh tribals for a PIL filed by them in 2009, saying they were trying to provide a legal protective shield to members of Left Wing Extremism.
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