Manipur Violence Case : Live Updates From Supreme Court

Jaising: "Nodal officers...to prevent mob violence," it is a system of very intense monitoring by state where every district shall have a nodal officer who has to give periodic reports to executive...

Jaising: This court has dealt with similar issues before. It was in the context of lynchings across country and this court was called for preventive measures. Please see.

Jaising: I would like to address you on the preventive aspect. It's as important as what has gone...This question arose in the context of lynchings taking across the country...in a judgment reported in 2018 9 SCC pg 501...

CJI: What we will do is this...anyone else wants to say anything?

Jaising: Just one second - it's an issue of some moment.

Jaising: Please see this- Whether a video recording constitutes evidence under the Indian evidence act?

Jaising: I am pointing a judgement of this court which says you may admit videos as evidence...this is a case which arose from Bombay...

Jaising: During the Nirbhaya incident, it was found out that police wasn't doing its duty. So by 2012 amendment, 166A was introduced in IPC. 166A says that police officers who do not perform their duties be punished. We're asking for this section to be invoked.

Jaising: They have a right to know the status of their cases. Registration of FIRs, whether they have been lodged or not, should be known.

Jaising: The second is SIT also consisting of women with unblemished records...c) Investigation should be court monitored by regular reports.

Jaising: The commission should evolve its own procedure to hear survivors in a gender neutral manner...I don't think commissions can record evidence, please note that.