Supreme Court order on EEVFAM petition on January 4 2013
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Families of the victims during a meeting with UN Special Rapporteur Prof Christof Heyns at Guwahati in March 2012
EXECUTION VICTIM FAMILIES ASSOCIATION (EEVFAM) AND ANOTHER PETITIONER(S)
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ANOTHER RESPONDENT(S)
WITH
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.445 OF 2012
SURESH SINGH PETITIONER(S)
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ANOTHER RESPONDENT(S)
OR D E R
These two writ petitions, each filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, raise some disquieting issues pertaining to the
State of Manipur. In writ petition (criminal) No.129 of 2012, it is stated
that, over the years, a large number of people, Indian citizens, have been
killed by the Manipur Police and other security forces while they were in
custody or in stage-managed encounters or in ways broadly termed as 'extra-judicial executions'. In writ petition (civil) No.445 of 2012, it is
stated that for a very long time, the State of Manipur is declared as "disturbed area" and is put under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,
1958, subverting the civil rights of the citizens of the State and making
it possible for the security forces to kill innocent persons with impunity.
In this order, we deal with the first writ petition, i.e., writ petition (criminal) No.129/2012.
In this writ petition it is stated that during the period May, 1979
to May, 2012, 1528 people were killed in Manipur in extra-judicial
execution. The statement is mainly based on a memorandum prepared by 'Civil
Society Coalition on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN' and submitted to
one ChristofHeyns, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions, Mission to India, 19-30 March, 2012.
The Memorandum
compiles the list of 1528 people allegedly killed unlawfully by the State
Police or the security forces. The writ petitioners later on filed
"Compilation 1" and "Compilation 2". In "Compilation 1" details are given
of ten (10) cases relating to the killings of eleven (11) persons (out of
the list of 1528); in "Compilation 2", similarly details are given of
thirteen (13) cases in which altogether seventeen (17) persons (out of the
list of 1528) are alleged to have been killed in extra judicial executions.
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