Overview
- Directing transparency, the bench led by CJI Surya Kant told the CBI and Manipur SITs to furnish charge-sheet copies to victims and families.
- State legal services in Manipur and Assam must appoint a local-language legal-aid lawyer for each victim and cover travel and boarding for counsel and one family member per case.
- The court kept in place its earlier permission for victims to record statements via video conference before the Guwahati trial court for safety.
- A monitoring report noted 20 CBI charge sheets filed with six FIRs still under investigation, which the court said must be completed within the stipulated timeframe.
- Expressing displeasure over unpaid honoraria, the court ordered interim payments to Justice Gita Mittal and two former judges on the rehabilitation panel, and to monitoring officer Dattatray Padsalgikar, and listed the matter for mid-March.