On Monday, Honorable Supreme Court slammed Central Bureau of Investigation for going against the basics. SC asked CBI for registering FIR against the Army, Police and Paramilitary personnel having involvement in the fake encounter.
A bench of Justice Uday Lalit and Madan B Lokur shared with the Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh that both judges are dissatisfied with the progress made by the CBI.
In the last hearing, this bench of two judges had asked CBI to re-register FIRs. On Monday, CBI submitted its report about the case along with new FIRs. After going through this updated status report, the bench observed that CBI is still showing victims as accused and also filed FIR only against them.
In his statement, Justice Lokur said, “It is not going properly and we both are not satisfied by CBI work. It appears that they have registered FIRs only against the victims. We wanted CBI team to speed up this investigation and come up with some result.”
The ASG Maninder Singh has also said that our team is probing this case and we will take action against the real accused.
In the response of this, Justice Lokur said that this explanation is absolutely not going to satisfy us. Enough is enough. You should do it immediately. CBI should lodge counter FIRs immediately against the paramilitary forces, police and Army personnel. We want CBI to reach out to the truth.  Therefore, we had asked you to probe further. But you are not doing that.
The bench of two judges also directed National Human Rights Commission and asked them to support CBI with three or four persons in the 17 cases, which the NHRC had probed.
Acting over various PILs complaining about 98 fake encounter deaths, the court in July 2017 had ordered for CBI investigation. Describing NHRC as nothing but a ‘toothless tiger’, this bench of two judges ordered a CBI probe into the 98 fake encounter killings held in the last decade. At that time, Honorable Court was not happy with NHRC as its investigations were not implemented by the states. The bench asked CBI to appoint five officers to investigate all records of these cases and lodge necessary FIRs to complete the investigations by 31st December 2017.
This bench of Justice Uday Lalit and Madan B Lokur took note of the report submitted by CBI that in none of these cases an FIR been registered against any of the uniformed personnel.  On the contrary, all sorts of FIRs have been registered against the deceased persons. All these were reported for alleged violations of the law. Court has further stated that under these circumstances, we can’t depend upon the Manipur Police. When some of its uniformed personnel are said to be involved in these fake encounters, police might not carry out an impartial investigation.
The court has given time to CBI as shared by Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh and the bench has posted this matter for further hearing on March 12.