New Delhi, July 14 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday junked a plea by activist Himanshu Kumar demanding a CBI probe against the Chhattisgarh Police and central security forces for an alleged massacre of tribals in two separate places in Dantewada in 2009 and also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on for misusing the judicial process.
It pointed at glaring loopholes in the case put by petitioners seeking an independent probe into the killings A bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and J.B. Pardiwala said: “In the overall view of the matter, we have reached to the conclusion that no case, worth the name, has been made out by the writ petitioners for any further investigation much less through an independent agency to be appointed by this court.” It imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Kumar and directed that it should be de- posited within 4 weeks with the Supreme Court legal services committee, failing which recovery steps will be taken against him. Kumar had ac- accused security forces of extra-judicial killings and demanded compensation for families of those killed.
A plea was filed by Kumar and 12 others, who were the family members of the deceased tribals, seeking an independent probe into the killings. The bench noted that the prime concern and the endeavor of the court of law should be to secure justice on the basis of true facts which ought.
