Caveat for independent committee probing Atiq, Ashraf killings

The Uttar Pradesh government has moved a caveat application in the Supreme Court on a petition seeking to constitute an independent expert committee under the chairmanship of a former Supreme Court judge to inquire into the killing of Atiq and Ashraf amid police presence.
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will list the plea seeking to constitute an independent expert committee under the chairmanship of a former Supreme Court judge to inquire into the killing of Atiq and Ashraf amid police presence. A caveat application is filed by a litigant to ensure that no adverse order is passed against them without being heard.
Earlier, advocate Vishal Tiwari moved a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court, seeking to constitute an Independent Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of a former Supreme Court Justice to inquire into the 183 encounters that had occurred since 2017, as stated by Uttar Pradesh Special Director General of Police (Law and Order), and also to inquire into the murder of gangster turned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, who were in police custody.
In his plea, Tiwari also sought to constitute an independent expert committee under the chairmanship of a former Supreme Court judge to inquire into the Atiq and Ashraf killings.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari mentioned before the bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud seeking an urgent hearing of his plea and apprised the court that the matter be listed today. CJI Chandrachud said that some matters could not be listed as five judges are not available as they are ill.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari, in his public interest litigation, has also sought to issue directions to unearth the fake encounters by directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate, collect, and record the evidence in the Kanpur Bikru Encounter case 2020, in which Vikas Dubey and his aides were killed by a police encounter. As the inquiry commission could not record the evidence in rebuttal of the police version and filed the inquiry report in the absence of that.