NEW DELHI, May 8 -- The Supreme Court on Friday directed that at least one special court be established to deal with 10 to 15 pending trials in cases probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Passing a slew of directions to expedite trials in cases where the Centre, through the NIA, is the prosecutor, the apex court said the special courts should be set up within a month.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the Centre to approach the chief justice of the jurisdictional high courts and have consultations for establishing exclusive courts under Section 11 of the NIA Act, 2008.
Section 11 of the Act deals with the power of the central government to constitute special courts.
"We request the chi...