The news of the Seshachalam forest killings has created lots of chaos by the Human rights commission and many other social activists along with their groups for killing a 20 innocent woodcutters who were nowhere responsible for smuggling sandalwood.
Supreme Court dismissed the petition for CBI
However, many of these groups demanded a CBI probe into the issue for killing those wood cutters who hail from Tamil Nadu. As reported earlier the Supreme Court dismissed the petition for CBI probe as the High Court is already looking into the issue.
Central Home Minister Rajnath Singh
Responding to all these, the Central Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that Centre cannot ask for a CBI inquiry unless the state government appeals for it. Rajnath said "CBI inquiry can be done only after State government places a petition for it. We cannot do anything till the state approaches us." He added that few PILs were admitted in the Court.
