The Haryana government has named two IPS officers – Surinder Pal Singh and Sunil Kumar – to be in-charge of Special Investigation Teams (SIT)s to investigate the violence in Manipur that took place in recent months.
The Union Home Ministry had asked state governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Assam and Tripura to depute two SP level officers each for disposal of their services to the CBI. The Supreme Court is monitoring the progress of investigations into the violence that took place in Manipur. For this, the Apex court had appointed former Maharashtra DGP Dattatray Padsalgikar to supervise the probe by the CBI into the FIRs transferred to the bureau and the investigation by the investigative machinery of the state into the remaining FIRs.
As per details, Surinder Pal is a 2010 batch IPS officer, while Sunil Kumar is a 2012 batch officer of the Indian Police Services. Both officers are currently working as commandants of Haryana Armed Police (Madhuban) battalions. The state home department on Tuesday informed the Union ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) about the nomination of the two IPS officers for the SITs. The officers shall be on deputation to CBI and shall perform their functions under the overall structure of the CBI. They will submit periodic information and reports as may be requested by former Maharashtra DGP Dattatray Padsalgikar.
In August this year, the Supreme Court had asked Dattatray Padsalgikar — who will supervise the probe into cases arising out of ethnic clashes in Manipur — as well as the committee of three former high court judges looking into the humanitarian aspects, to submit a progress report to the court in two months. The Apex court had also stated, “There is a need to ensure that the violence in Manipur ceases, the perpetrators of violence are punished according to the procedure established by law, and that consequently, the faith and confidence of the community in the justice system is restored”.
The Supreme Court had expressed its “anguish of the manner in which women have been subjected to grave acts of sexual violence in the course of the sectarian strife” and said that “subjecting women to sexual crimes and violence is completely unacceptable.”
