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New Delhi: The Haryana government Monday vehemently opposed in the top court the Punjab and Haryana High Courts move to direct an independent probe under the supervision of a retired HC judge into the death of a farmer during the farmers protests in February..
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Haryana government, told the Supreme Court that it was not the function of judges to investigate such incidents..
The solicitor made his submissions before a bench of justices Surya Kant and K.V. Viswanathan, while arguing the Haryana governments appeal against the HC order of 7 March which constituted a three-member independent inquiry panel to probe the death of farmer Shubhkaran Singh from Bathinda...
Retired Punjab and Haryana HC judge Justice Jaishree Thakur was nominated to head the panel with two senior police officers from Punjab and Haryana respectively..
Justice Kant observed that the allegations were against the Haryana Police, hence Mehtas concern about the order affecting the morale of the police had no basis..
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