NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today gave the last opportunity to five states to file their replies on a plea seeking CBI probe into the mysterious death of children and attacks on ten witnesses in the Asaram Bapu rape cases.
A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan granted six weeks to Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh Governments to file responses in the matter.
During the hearing, advocate Utsav Singh Bains, appearing for four witnesses in cases against the spirtual leader, pointed out that the State Governments had not filed their replies to the writ petition.
The apex court had on March 24 questioned the state Governments’ failure to provide security to the witnesses and implementation of the protection programme.
The petitioners have sought a SIT probe into the instances of attacks and disappearances of the witnesses in the cases against Asaram and pleaded for expeditious framing of the national witness protection guidelines. (AGENCIES)
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