Shillong, Oct 18: Former Director General of Police of Meghalaya, Lajja Ram Bishnoi has been selected to be part of the five-member High Powered Enquiry Committee to enquire into alleged police excesses during the student protests in Delhi and other places in the country in July this year.
The enquiry committee was constituted by the Supreme Court. The committee is headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd) R Subhash Reddy.
Besides Bishnoi, the other members of the committee include former Punjab & Haryana High Court Chief Justice Ravi Shankar Jha, former Delhi High Court judge Shalinder Kaur and former CBI Director Rishi Kumar.
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The Supreme Court ordered the setting up of the enquiry committee following a batch of petitions alleging police highhandedness during the students’ march to Parliament on July 20.
The student protest led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) began at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on June 20 and spreaded to other cities in India.
The protest was called off on July 25 after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. His resignation was the main demand of the students who blamed him for the recurrent leakage of NEET question papers.
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