<p>The Supreme Court on Friday reconstituted the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Karnataka High Court to probe the March 2 clash of lawyers, police and media persons in Bangalore.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and S J Mukhopadhaya replaced the SIT headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan, and appointed a fresh committee with the concurrence of counsels representing different parties.<br /><br />The committee will now comprise one Additional DGP each of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, a DIG rank officer posted in the CBI and who is essentially familiar with Kannada, and Inspector In-charge of Ulsoor Gate police station in Bangalore.<br /><br />The bench directed the new SIT to submit its report to the court within three months.<br />The court nominated new members for the committee after senior counsel K K Venugopal, representing petitioner Advocates’ Association, and K V Vishwanathan, appearing for the Karnataka government consented to the proposal forwarded by the bench.<br /><br />During the hearing, Venugopal objected to the composition of the SIT set up under the chairmanship of former CBI director R K Raghavan by the High Court, contending that it included several top police officers who were facing charges in the case. <br /><br />The bench was hearing the special leave petition assailing the HC verdict delivered on May 16.<br /><br />Among the slew of directions, the High Court had asked for the constitution of the SIT to probe the March 2 incident and also the complaints lodged by advocates, police as well as media persons.<br /><br />The court had also directed the Centre to consider the modalities of regulating broadcasting media, including provision of a mechanism for addressing grievances in the realm of broadcasting.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Friday reconstituted the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Karnataka High Court to probe the March 2 clash of lawyers, police and media persons in Bangalore.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and S J Mukhopadhaya replaced the SIT headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan, and appointed a fresh committee with the concurrence of counsels representing different parties.<br /><br />The committee will now comprise one Additional DGP each of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, a DIG rank officer posted in the CBI and who is essentially familiar with Kannada, and Inspector In-charge of Ulsoor Gate police station in Bangalore.<br /><br />The bench directed the new SIT to submit its report to the court within three months.<br />The court nominated new members for the committee after senior counsel K K Venugopal, representing petitioner Advocates’ Association, and K V Vishwanathan, appearing for the Karnataka government consented to the proposal forwarded by the bench.<br /><br />During the hearing, Venugopal objected to the composition of the SIT set up under the chairmanship of former CBI director R K Raghavan by the High Court, contending that it included several top police officers who were facing charges in the case. <br /><br />The bench was hearing the special leave petition assailing the HC verdict delivered on May 16.<br /><br />Among the slew of directions, the High Court had asked for the constitution of the SIT to probe the March 2 incident and also the complaints lodged by advocates, police as well as media persons.<br /><br />The court had also directed the Centre to consider the modalities of regulating broadcasting media, including provision of a mechanism for addressing grievances in the realm of broadcasting.</p>
