The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious view of the NGO, Citizen for Justice and Peace seeking intervention of the UN Human Rights Commission in the Godhra train burning case, particularly for protection of witnesses, saying how can a body outside India be allowed to interfere in country’s judicial system.
Reminding CJP run by Teesta Setalvad and others that the top court had been monitoring the investigation and trial in major riot cases, including that of the Godhra train burning on the petition of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), a three-judge special bench, headed by Justice D.K. Jain said “we can’t allow outside agencies to interfere in our courts.”
As Citizen for Justice and Peace counsel Kamini Jaiswal tried to explain that the letters of October 5 and October 7 to UNHRC were written by the NGO only regarding the protection of witnesses, the bench having Justices P. Sathasivam and Aftab Alam as other judges shot back “will they (UNHRC) provide protection to witnesses in India?”
The fact about the CJP writing to UNHRC was brought before the top court by SIT headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan.