The Supreme Court Wednesday asked Justice (retired) H S Bedi, who headed the committee which monitored the Special Task Force (STF) that inquired into police encounters in Gujarat between 2002 and 2007, to apprise whether he had consulted other members of the committee before submitting his final report to the court.
“Having perused the interim reports and the eleventh (final) report submitted on 26.2.2018, and having noticed the tenor thereof, we are of the view that at this stage, we should request Justice Bedi to inform the court as to whether the final report submitted on 26.2.2018 was shared with other members of the Monitoring Authority and whether Justice Bedi as the Chairman of the Monitoring Authority, appointed by this court by its previous orders, considers it necessary to take the views of the other members of the Monitoring Authority if the 11th (final) report has been submitted unilaterally by the learned Judge,” a bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogai and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph said.