Appoints all-women committee of former high court judges, retired top cop to monitor situation in troubled northeastern state.
India’s top court has formed a high-powered panel of three retired women judges to restore peace and monitor relief measures in strife-torn Manipur state.
India’s Supreme Court took the unusual step on Aug. 7 as the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules the northeastern state and also heads the federal government in Delhi, failed to curb violence which began on May 3.
Justice Gita Mittal, former chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, will head the panel. Two retired judges, Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi from the Bombay High Court and Justice Asha Menon from the Delhi High Court, will be its members.