Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 527 · Decided 8 July 2016
Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association (Eevfam) & ANR. v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 527 · [2016] 4 S.C.R. 909
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 129/2012
- Decided
- 8 July 2016
- Bench
- MADAN B. LOKUR, UDAY UMESH LALIT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution Article 32, 226; UAPA
Headnote
Constitution of India: Arts.32, 226 - Maintainability of the writ petition - Allegation in writ petition that fake encounters or extra judicial executions carried out by Manipur police and the armed forces of the Union - Held: In matters concerning gross violations constitutional court should adopt an 'open door policy' - The instant case is not an ordinary case of a police complaint or a simple case of an FIR not being registered - This case involves allegations that the law enforcement authorities, that is, the Manipur Police along with the armed forces
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