Overview

• The court ordered the NIA to file a formal chargesheet within one month over the November 2024 abduction and murder of three women and three children in Jiribam.
• A bench led by Chief Justice K. Somashekar and Justice Ahanthem Bimol Singh took two sealed-cover reports submitted on July 24 into the court record.
• Deputy Solicitor General Kh. Samarjit told the court the NIA is finalising charges under Section 173 of the CrPC and the BNSS Act, 2023.
• A PIL by the Uripok Apunba Lup civil society group spurred repeated High Court directives and tighter oversight of the investigation.
• The court warned it would view any failure to meet the late-August deadline with “serious” judicial scrutiny at the next hearing.