New Delhi, July 22 -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered CBI to take over the probe into the brutal torture of a Jammu & Kashmir police constable at the joint interrogation centre in Kupwara, directing the arrest of the guilty police officers, and awarding a compensation of Rs.50 lakh to the victim. A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said the local police demonstrated "complete institutional failure" by illegally detaining Khursheed Ahmad Chohan (45), subjecting him to "barbaric and systematic torture resulting in permanent mutilation", and then fabricating counter-narratives to shield the perpetrators. The court said it was constitutionally imperative to hand the investigation to CBI, as only an independent probe could ensu...