HC seeks details of probe into 'custodial killings' in Assam
Hearing a public interest litigation, a division bench of Chief Justice RM Chhaya and Justice Soumitra Saikia asked the state to submit whether guidelines issued by the SC for investigation into encounter cases have been followed. The court gave...

Hearing a public interest litigation, a division bench of Chief Justice RM Chhaya and Justice Soumitra Saikia asked the state to submit whether guidelines issued by the SC for investigation into encounter cases have been followed. The court gave 60 days to the state to file the details. The matter has been listed for the next hearing on September 29.
"The State shall bring on record appropriate materials indicating the progress made in each of the case and further indicate whether the guidelines issued by the Apex Court in the case of People's Union for Civil Liberties and another Vs. State of Maharashtra & Ors...are followed in later and spirit or not," the court directed.
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