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A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam posted the petition filed by the officers challenging a Jammu and Kashmir High Court order for Friday.
It also issued notice to the Jammu and Kashmir Government.
The police officers had on July 17 moved the apex Court seeking stay of the High Court order directing their arrest and collection of blood samples for preparing the DNA profile.
The police officers, including Superintendent of Police Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Deputy SP Rohit Baskotra, had submitted that the High Court's order was passed against them without making them party in the PIL filed by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association in connection with the alleged rape and murder of Neelofar Jan and Aasiya Jan in Shopian.
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