JUSTICE
GITA MITTAI COMMITTEE – POLITY
News: Do not intend to run Manipur
administration; we can scrap Gita Mittal Committee or you can trust it, CJI
tells petitioners
What's
in the news?
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Faced with myriad complaints and
grievances from petitioners in the Manipur ethnic violence case, the Supreme
Court said it could not run the State administration, and petitioners had to
trust the Justice Gita Mittal Committee to do its job.
Justice
Gita Mittai Committee:
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The Supreme Court announced the formation
of an all-women panel to help bring
healing and relief to the violence-stricken region in Manipur.
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The panel will consist of three former
High Court judges, with Justice Gita Mittal as its head.
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The panel aims to provide a healing touch
to the situation in Manipur.
Members
of the committee:
The all-women committee
consists of three experienced former High Court judges:
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Justice
Gita Mittal, who was a former Chief Justice of the
Jammu & Kashmir High Court.
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Justice
Shalini Phansalkar Joshi, a retired Bombay High Court judge.
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Justice
Asha Menon, a former Delhi High Court Judge.
Work
of All-Women Panel:
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The committee’s main task is to oversee relief and rehabilitation efforts,
restore homes and places of worship and improve the overall relief work in the
violence-affected areas.
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This broad-based committee will focus on
addressing the various aspects of the situation in Manipur and bring about positive
changes.
Monitoring
the investigation:
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Chief Justice, D.Y. Chandrachud also
appointed a retired IPS officer,
Dattatray Padsalgikar to monitor the investigation of the cases that have
arisen from the violence.
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Over 6,500 FIRs have been filed from May
to July in Manipur.
Outside
oversight:
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Director
General of Police (DGP) from six different states will
nominate six Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank officers each to supervise the
Special Investigation Teams (SITs) formed for these cases.
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The aim is to create multiple layers of
monitoring to ensure a fair and thorough investigation.