Supreme Court extends tenure of Gita Mittal Committee formed to provide ‘healing touch' in Manipur

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The committee’s archetypal  reports had focussed connected  the reconstruction of thousands of indispensable  documents mislaid  oregon  destroyed successful  the unit   which had rocked Manipur successful  May 2025. Image for representational purposes only. File

The committee’s archetypal reports had focussed connected the reconstruction of thousands of indispensable documents mislaid oregon destroyed successful the unit which had rocked Manipur successful May 2025. Image for representational purposes only. File | Photo Credit: AFP

The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) extended the tenure of its all-women committee of 3 erstwhile High Court judges headed by erstwhile High Court Chief Justice Gita Mittal, constituted successful August 2023 to show the rehabilitation enactment successful violence-torn Manipur, by different six months.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said the committee would proceed to relation till July 31, 2026. The sheet has truthful acold filed implicit 40 reports successful the Supreme Court, acting arsenic the court’s eyes and ears successful providing the ‘healing touch’ successful the northeastern State.

The tribunal had formed the broad-based committee, which had included Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi, a retired Bombay High Court judge, and Justice Asha Menon, a erstwhile Delhi High Court judge.

In Supreme Court’s ‘healing touch’, an all-women committee of 3 erstwhile High Court judges to oversee alleviation successful Manipur

“This volition beryllium a broad-based committee which volition beryllium constituted to supervise, intervene and show alleviation and rehabilitation, restoration of homesteads, spiritual places of worship, amended alleviation work, etc,” the apex tribunal had observed.

The committee’s archetypal reports had focussed connected the reconstruction of thousands of indispensable documents mislaid oregon destroyed successful the gunfire, arson and unit which had rocked Manipur successful May 2025.

The tribunal had tasked the committee, done its work, to endeavour to re-instill the Manipur people’s content successful the regularisation of law.

The committee reports had identified halfway areas successful which enactment needed to beryllium done successful the State. These had included rehabilitation against women victims of violence, broad intelligence assistance and intelligence wellness care, aesculapian attraction and health, alleviation camps and information reporting and monitoring.

Published - January 28, 2026 12:20 p.m. IST

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