NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Friday gave the Justice V.S. Sirpurkar fee, inquiring into the police encounter on 4 suspects within the 2019 rape and homicide of a veterinary physician, six extra months to finish the probe. Justice Sirpurkar is a former choose of the apex court docket.
That is for the second time {that a} bench headed by Chief Justice Sharad A. Bobde has prolonged the time period of the fee it had arrange on December 12, 2019 — six days after the encounter.
The physique of the sufferer, recognized as Disha, was discovered on November 28, 2019. The 4 suspects have been arrested and, based on the Cyberabad Metropolitan Police, confessed to having raped and killed the physician.
On July 24, 2020, the court docket gave the fee an extension of six months. The fee had pleaded for extension on the bottom that the Covid-19 pandemic and the issues thereof stood in the best way of the probe.
Moreover Justice Sirpurkar, different members of the inquiry fee are former choose of Bombay Excessive Court docket Justice Rekha Sundar Baldota and former CBI director D.R. Kaarthikeyan.
Directing the fee to submit its report inside six months from the date of its first sitting, the highest court docket had on December 12, 2019, barred the Telangana Excessive Court docket and the Nationwide Human Rights Fee from holding one other probe.
Nevertheless, the apex court docket had mentioned the investigation by the Particular Investigation Workforce arrange by the Telangana authorities might proceed with its investigations.
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