Sankarnarayanan: there needs to be a clarification of the order. We have identified individual police officers who have acted. Let the affidavit explain who was responsible for the direction to RAF. The direction has to go to Commisioner of Police and RAF Director to ask them how you permitted pellet guns and lathi charge
Mehta: the reply is ready but I have not gone through it. Before filing I want to be sure of it.
Senior Advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan: their reply should answer certain questions.
CJI: it will have to be seen how many FIRs are there. Then the second exercise would have to be the segregation of those with antecedents.
Mehta: Withdrawal is not permissible.
Mehta: There are some people who want to keep the pot boiling so we have to be cautious about the legal advice.
Grover: individual public prosecutors seeking closure is a tedious and uncertain process.
Mehta: I had a discussion with Vrinda Grover. We have to see how to go about it.
Advocate Vrinda Grover: issue is whether it would be withdrawal or quashing of FIRs. It was about improvement in education system. These are young people who have their lives ahead of them. Even for quashing we have FIRs in Bihar Bengal Assam UP Delhi. After this has been worked out with the states we will come back to this court.
Mehta: whichever legally permissible way it may be done the government stands to its commitment.
Matter taken up.
Senior Advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan: They haven't filed the affidavit as per the last order.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta: there was some missapprehension or misscommunication about what to do with the FIRs against the protesters. I have instructions to say that the government is serious on that commitment.