SC Rejects Plea for Probe Into 'Extrajudicial' Killing of Chhattisgarh Adivasis

The court also fined the petitioner Adivasi rights activist Himanshu Kumar for Rs 5 lakh.

The Supreme Court on Thursday, 14 July, dismissed a petition filed by an activist in 2009, which had sought an independent probe into the alleged extra-judicial killing of 17 Adivasis by security forces amid anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh.

A bench comprising AM Khanwilkar and JB Pardiwala also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Adivasi rights activist Himanshu Kumar, and asked him to deposit the amount within four weeks, news agency ANI reported.

Kumar's Public Interest Litigation (PIL) had sought a probe into the alleged killings of Adivasis in the state in 2009. In his petition, Kumar had also alleged that security forces had tortured the Adivasis, outraged the modesty of their family members and looted them before allegedly killing them.