The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre, seeking its response within three weeks to a plea for an independent probe into incidents of alleged torture and extra-judicial killings by the Border Security Force (BSF).
A Bench comprising Justices BS Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar passed the order on a PIL by a Kolkata-based NGO, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Manch, contending that BSF personnel had committed more than 200 such excesses during 2005-11 in the border areas of West Bengal alone. These cases were never probed properly despite the fact that in most of the cases complainants had witnessed the victims being picked by BSF personnel, it said.
The state police had booked the victims instead of the BSF personnel and subsequently closed the cases, the PIL said.
