HC stays Ishrat report, calls for action against magistrate Killing of Israt Jahan and others if
orchestrated by the police, then it is absolutely wrong – but the action of the Metropolitan
Magistrate S. P. Tamang is not in the line of his power – is that also orchestrated – and if so, then that is also absolutely wrong.
What people do not understand is the way things move in courts as well as in government departments. Often, we see contradictory reports in the media within days of its first publishing. If a magistrate cannot follow the directives, then nothing can be expected from other government servants and public. The matter of the fact is that people in higher responsible posts most of the time manipulate the outcome of any incident.
Israt and her colleagues were killed in encounter, which is contradicted by Tamang’s court – and now, the state government filed a petition for a stay order to the High Court, which accepted it. The High Court also ordered the Registrar General to take up the matter seriously for a disciplinary action against Tamang. If innocent persons were killed for not valid reasons, punishment must be awarded to the culprits. That is the main point here, but the point is going awry because of faults of the magistrate, who itself announced the encounter as fake.
The High Court formed a three-member committee to probe this matter, and to submit their report to the court by 30 November. Did Tamang not know about this directive of the High Court? How he gave the report of his to the media the same day he sent the report to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM)?
Questioning Tamang’s jurisdiction, advocate General Kamal Trivedi and Public Prosecutor J M Panchal brought the matter in the notice of the High Court.
Now that Tamang’s order is stayed – for future action we have to look forward High Court’s further directives.