The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to go into all alleged “fake encounter” killings by the Gujarat police since 2003 after it passed judicial orders on three such cases, saying the issue was urgent and needed to be looked into.
“These are important matters of four-five years old. We don’t want delay. We will give a specific date for hearing in January,” a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai said.
The court was hearing two PILs filed by journalist B.G. Verghese and Bollywood star Javed Akhtar, seeking a through investigation into 21 alleged fake encounters in Gujarat since 2003.