'Tell us in 24 hours why you haven't curbed Salwa Judum'

July 24, 2012 17:27

The Chhattisgarh government was today granted a day's time by the Supreme Court to respond to allegations of failing to comply with its directions to stop support to vigilante groups like Salwa Judum and arming tribals in the name of SPOs in the fight against Maoists.

Without issuing notice, a bench comprising justices S S Nijjar and H L Gokhale asked the state government to file an affidavit by tomorrow in response to a petition seeking contempt action against it for not complying with the apex court's July 5, 2011 judgement.

Advocate Atul Jha said Chhattisgarh government will spell out the steps taken by it in compliance with the judgement. The contempt petition was filed by sociologist Nandini Sundar, historian Ramachandra Guha, former bureaucrat E A S Sarma and others on whose PIL the court last year criticised the central and state governments for supporting and funding creation of Special Police Officers (SPOs) under various titles like 'Koya Commandos' and Salwa Judum, an armed civilian vigilante group.

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