Take action regardless of source of wrongdoing: SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Manipur government must take action regardless of the source of wrongdoing. The verbal observation was made during the resumed hearing of a clutch of petitions pertaining to violence in the state.

A bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud asked the Union home secretary to convene a meeting with the three-member all-women judicial committee headed by justice (retd) Gita Mittal. The panel was appointed by the court to look into compensation, rehabilitation and other humanitarian issues pertaining to the victims of violence.

The home secretary and judicial committee will ascertain the experts to be selected for executing the work of the judicial committee. Further, the bench said if grievances, regarding food supplies or medicines etc, continued, then they should be brought to the notice of the district administration, which would act on them immediately.


The bench, however, clarified that nothing will preclude the victims or aggrieved persons from approaching the judicial committee. The bench also directed the Manipur government to furnish details of the arms recovered through all sources in the state.

In a related development, the bench granted interim protection from arrest to the president and fact-finding team members of Editors Guild of India in relation to a first information report lodged against them by the Manipur Police. The bench ordered that no coercive steps should be taken against them till September 11.