The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine in detail on the earliest possible date a plea seeking a court monitored CBI or SIT probe into incidents of alleged police encounters and killings in Uttar Pradesh. The court will decide on February 12 whether to seek a report from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the alleged encounter killings in the state. Earlier the apex court had sought response from the state government on the PIL filed by the NGOalleging that there were about 1100 encounters in 2017 in which 49 people were killed and 370 injured. Quoting the figure provided by the state to the NHRC it said that 45 persons have died between January 1 2017 and March 31 last year.