Updates on the Alex Paul's Menon's release in a bit.

But first, the Supreme Court today refused to order any judicial inquiry or a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged fake encounter killings of top Naxalite leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and a Delhi journalist Hemchandra Pandey. 

A bench of justices Aftab Alam and C K Prasad said there was no reason to believe the allegation that the investigation conducted by the CBI into the encounter was not "honest". The bench directed the CBI to file its investigation
reports before the jurisdictional magistrate concerned in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, where the encounter took place on July 1, 2010.

Read: Unsaid Words -- A woman remembers her best friend, a man dubbed a Maoist and killed by the Republic of India. He happened to be her journalist husband.