High Court of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday refused to intervene in any decision of independent judicial commission or its’ set ‘terms’, which have been challenged by the state government.
A decision in this regard was made by the division bench of Chief Justice P. R. Ramchandra Menon and Justice P.P. Sahu. The bench rejected the plea of the state government to instruct the single member judicial panel of Justice Prashant Mishra for taking cognizance on eight new Terms on Records (TOR) notified by the state government on Jheeram massacre.
Advocate General ChhattisgarhSatish Chandra Verma informed that citing technical reason that the judicial panel is an independent probe agency and thus it could chose its own terms, the High Court denied intervening into the matter.
Accepting that the decision was a setback for the government, the AG further said that they will challenge the Commission of Enquiry Act itself in the apex court. “This is a unique case in itself in all over the country and Chhattisgarh will be the first state to challenge the act in the Supreme Court”, he added.