What did not come much to the notice of the media in the Northeast last week was a Supreme Court directive to the CBI’s special investigation team (SIT) to file a supplementary FIR naming the officers involved in the alleged extra-judicial killings and staged gunfights by the Army, Assam Rifles and police in Manipur over the years. A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice UU Lalit asked the SIT to file supplementary FIRs in the existing FIR that would include the names of officers or commanding officers of the units concerned, and told the National Human Rights Commission to assist the CBI team. The apex court said the judicial inquiries and the Gauhati High Court’s findings have named the commanding officer of the unit of the Assam Rifles battalion (involved in the alleged shooting) or the officer who shot “but these personnel have not been named in the FIR”. The court was hearing a PIL seeking a probe into as many as 1,528 cases of extra-judicial killings in Manipur.