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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the unnatural decease of a Scheduled Caste younker successful Madhya Pradesh amid the differing versions fixed by his widow and member astir the persons liable for the tragedy.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the Director General of Police, Madhya Pradesh, to signifier a SIT of 3 direct-recruit IPS officers to probe the decease of Nilesh Adivasi successful July.
The tribunal directed the caput of the SIT to beryllium a Madhya Pradesh cadre serviceman with nary roots successful the State. The 2nd officers should beryllium young, and besides with nary roots to the State. The 3rd should beryllium a pistillate officer.
According to the connection of the widow, her hubby took his ain beingness connected relationship of the “torture and harassment meted retired to him by a erstwhile Home Minister of the State and his associates”. She had approached the High Court for a CBI probe into the death.
However, the member of the decease alleged that a idiosyncratic named ‘Govind Singh Rajput’ and others were liable for the unnatural death.
“There are, thus, 2 antithetic and contradictory versions that emanate from the adjacent household members of the deceased with respect to the origin of his death,” the tribunal bid noted.
The tribunal said the facts and circumstances of the lawsuit “undoubtedly warrant a dispassionate, fair, autarkic and impartial probe into the origin of decease of Nilesh Adivasi”.
“It seems to america that the section constabulary would not beryllium capable to instrumentality the probe to a logical conclusion. Any further delay, it goes without saying, volition beryllium detrimental to the interests of the victim’s household arsenic the pendency of the probe mightiness pb to demolition of grounds and/or influencing the witnesses, whose mentation is apt to person a worldly bearing connected the result of the investigation,” the Bench observed.
The apical tribunal said the hands of CBI, a “skilled investigating agency”, was already full, and entrustment of this probe to the bureau mightiness origin inordinate and undesirable delay.
It directed the enactment of the SIT successful its workout of its powers nether Article 142 of the Constitution. The tribunal directed the SIT to reason the probe successful a month.
