New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the trial of army personnel charged with killing five “innocent” persons after branding them terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on March 25, 2000.
The five men were shot dead in a joint operation by the army and police in Pathribal village of Anantnag district, as a sequel to the gruesome killing of 35 people in village Chattisinghpura by terrorists a few days prior to the visit of the then US President Bill Clinton to India.
The apex court stayed the trial after the Additional Solicitor General Vikas Singh appearing for the army authorities submitted that the CBI conducted the prosecution and filed the chargesheet without obtaining the mandatory sanction of the Central Government.A bench of Justices B. N. Aggrawal and P. P. Naolekar, while staying the trial, issued notices to CBI and the Jammu and Kashmir Government for their response on the petition filed by the army authorities. - PTI
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