After going through the status report, the top court observed that the probe was at an initial stage, clubbing with the fact that that mobile phone (of Shah) was seized. The witness statements were also recorded in the case. “Let the investigation continue, and a status report be filed then. Interim order to continue,” the bench stated in its order and posted the matter for further hearing to July.During the hearing on Wednesday, the bench perused and recorded the status report submitted by DIG Police, which stated that an SIT of three IPS officers was constituted in pursuance of the apex court’s earlier order.Following the top court’s order on May 19, Madhya Pradesh DGP constituted the SIT, comprising IG, Sagar Range, Pramod Verma, DIG, SAF, Kalyan Chakraborty and Dindori SP Vahini Singh.It is to be noted that Shah made the alleged remark at a public programme in Raikunda village in Indore district on May 12. Following this, the FIR was filed against him under Sections 152, 196(1)(b), and 197 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Shah’s counsel had said that he had publicly apologised for his remarks.Earlier in the hearing on May 19, the top court pulled up Shah for his alleged remarks on Colonel Qureshi and constituted a three-member special investigation team to probe the FIR lodged against him in the matter, terming his statements as “shameful.”
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