West Bengal Post Poll Violence Case : Supreme Court Hearing LIVE UPDATES

Sibal: No victim should be left without a remedy, on any level whatsoever.

Sibal: Before you come to such conclusion there has to be evidence on record.

Sibal :  Court thinks all this can happen in 4 days, we still did it. Then impugned order is passed on Aug 19th. List of dates itself tells you the breach of natural justice. In Muzaffarnagar Riots case this court took 5 months to analyse each case.

Sibal : As an officer of the Court, I tell, no victim will be left without remedy. It is the duty of the state to deal with the crimes in accordance with law and the State will do, whether the cases are political or not political.

Sibal: Annexure relating to rape cases wasn’t given to us, on grounds that you will know names of the complaint. I understand, you can’t disclose it to private party. But how can you not disclose it to State? They say it can’t be given under IPC!

Justice Saran: Interim report copy wasn’t given to you?

Sibal: No. And they relied on the report and made scathing observations against us.

Sibal submits that the High Court refused to furnish the state the copy of the interim report filed by the NHRC Committee.

Justice Saran: Which are 3 members that you’ve objection to.

Sibal: The first three, Rajiv Jain, Atif Rasheed, Rajulben L. Desai

Sibal: Next issue is if you can en masse transfer the cases to CBI. Principle evolved is that transfer is case by case. You can’t say I have received 100 complaints. I’ll transfer it without looking it on a case to case basis! There’s no en masse transfer of cases!

Justice Saran : So there are 2 aspects to your submissions. Adequate time was not given to you and whatever you had filed were not considered.

Sibal agrees.

Sibal says principles of natural justice were violated. He submits that the High Court allowed only 7 days time to the State to respond to the matter

"You give only 7 days time to file response to 1000s of complaints! In a federal structure, nobody can complete investigation with 7 days"- Sibal.