New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked various state governments to inform it within six weeks about the action taken on cases of alleged cow vigilantes and lynching. A bench of Justice BR Gavai, Justice Arvind Kumar and Justice Sandeep Mehta decided to hear the petition of a women’s organization after six weeks.
The plea had requested that states be directed to take immediate action in line with a 2018 judgment of the apex court to deal with incidents of mob violence against Muslims by alleged cow vigilantes.
The bench ordered, “We find that most of the states have not filed their counter affidavits to the writ petition citing instances of ‘mob lynching’. States were expected to at least answer what action had been taken in such cases. “We give six weeks time to those states which have not filed their reply.”
The apex court was hearing a petition filed by the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW), an organization affiliated with the Communist Party of India (CPI), which had last year directed the Central Government and the Director Generals of Police of Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana to Notices were issued to and their replies were sought on the petition.
During the hearing, advocate Nizam Pasha, appearing for the petitioner organization, said that an incident of alleged ‘mob lynching’ had taken place in Madhya Pradesh, but an FIR for cow slaughter was registered against the victims. He said, “If the state denies the incident of ‘mob lynching’ then how will the 2018 verdict in the Tehseen Poonawala case be implemented.”
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Tags: Lynching Case, mob lynching, Supreme Court
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 16, 2024, 22:44 IST