New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the woman, who was spied upon by the Gujarat police five years ago, to approach the High Court to stall a probe into the incident by the panel appointed by the state government.
An SC bench headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai made the suggestion while hearing a joint petition filed by the woman, who was tailed by the state police allegedly on the orders of CM Narendra Modi and her father, for stopping the Centre and state governments from going ahead with their commissions of inquiry.
The Centre informed the SC that was not going ahead with its commission of inquiry. Earlier the SC recorded the statement made by the solicitor general that “there is no proposal to appoint any commission of inquiry.” Nothing survives in the plea in view of the stand taken by the Centre, the bench said.
The petitioners’ counsel agreed with the view of the bench, that the setting up of commission of inquiry by the state government can be challenged in the HC. While allowing withdrawal of the plea, the SC made it clear that it was “not making any comments on the merits of the case.”
