The Court asked the President of the Manipur High Court Bar Association to prepare a statement and submit orders of the High Court showing that lawyers from all communities appeared.
Even as a miffed Arora said that she would recuse herself from appearing in the matter, the CJI said that remarks against counsel would not be attributable to them personally.
The Centre had urged the bench that instead of the two FIRs related to a video showing women being paraded naked by a mob, 11 out of 6,523 FIRs linked to violence against women and children may be transferred to the CBI and tried out of Manipur.
While a court-appointed team will not “supplant” the investigating officers, there is a need to administer “some healing touch”, the court said, adding that such a team would send across the message that the “highest constitutional court of the country is deeply concerned”.