Supreme Court to hear petition seeking justice in extra-judicial killings of more than 8000 youths tomorrow
Posted: 01 Sep 2019 08:20 AM PDTNEW DELHI, India—Tomorrow, the Supreme Court bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M.R. Shah will take up a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a human rights group named Punjab Documentation and Advocacy Project (PDAP) on behalf of more than eight thousand families, who lost their loved ones in extra-judicial killings carried out by the Punjab police  during the late 80’s and early 90’s.
Notably, the PDAP had moved this public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court demanding justice after a thorough investigation into these extra-judicial killings in July this year.
  The PIL lists the detailed information collected from 150 RTI applications, resulting in data of several cremation grounds between 1984 and 1995.
    It also provides evidence of 1,400 encounter FIRs claiming that the victims were unidentified militants.
It is learnt that the petitioners will be represented by senior advocates Colin Gonsalves and Satnam Singh Bains.