New Delhi, January 19
The Supreme Court today again refused to intervene in the Nithari serial killings case and rejected at least three petitions on the issue, saying that when the matter has already been transferred to the CBI, there was no need for judicial intervention at this stage.
The matter was listed before a Bench of Mr
Justice B N Agrawal and Mr Justice P P Naolekar. The petitioners had sought setting up of a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe the missing and alleged killings of a large number of small children from Nithari village near Noida by two arrested accused.
The court made it clear that at this stage it was not necessary to monitor the probe as the CBI has just started its work and even the U P Government had taken action against some police officers, who had taken the complaints of missing children lightly.
The main petition was filed by an organisation of Dalit women, alleging that the police officials had not taken any action because most of the missing children belonged to the poor sections of the society.
The court had also rejected a public interest petition filed by an advocate earlier on the
issue.
